perspectives on teaching & learning

Ministry of Education

PERSPECTIVES ON PERSPECTIVES ON TEACHING & LEARNINGTEACHING & LEARNING

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Perspectives on Perspectives on Teaching and Learning Teaching and Learning

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Share my perspectives on teaching and learning Application of some strategies into our classrooms

Link these strategies to teaching and learning principles

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Using the pictures you have selected, discuss…

WHAT TEACHING MEANS TO YOU?

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SO… WHAT IS YOUR PERSPECTIVE OF TEACHING?

WHAT IS TEACHING?WHAT IS TEACHING?

To educate: the activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill;

To show (someone) the way; to guide, conduct;

To pass on knowledge; skills


Teaching is the profession that teaches all the other professions.

~Author Unknown


In teaching, we make far more than just money. Every day, we make children excited with the wonders of science and the majesty of mathematics, and make them fall madly in love with the beauty of the arts and the humanities. Every day, we make our students discover their talents, and aspire to greater heights.Every day, we make our students believe in themselves. We make them press on in the face of adversity and as we see them mature into unique, talented individuals before our very eyes, we make sure that they learn all that they can today, so that they may become all that they can be tomorrow.Our teachers make a difference. What do you make?

- Ministry of Education

The KWL ApproachThe KWL Approach

Your Perspectives of Your Perspectives of TeachingTeaching

ACTIVATOR -THE KWL APPROACH TO ACTIVATOR -THE KWL APPROACH TO THE PERSPECTIVES OF TEACHINGTHE PERSPECTIVES OF TEACHING

An activator gets students’ minds active and in gear about a topicbefore they learn anything new about it.

Know, Want to Know, Learned or simply the KWL approach tobegin a new lesson enables teachers to do this.

This approach at the start of new topics taught encourages activeparticipation, reveals students, misconceptions, and generatesstudent-owned agendas for reading or listening.

Also gives the teacher a better understanding of his students.

THE KWL APPROACHTHE KWL APPROACH

Assumptions Know Want to know

WHAT IS TEACHING?

THE KWL APPROACHTHE KWL APPROACH

Assumptions Know Want to know

Long holidaysTeach means only teachOnly one or two ways to teach

Short holidaysTeaching encompasses many ‘unseen’ dutiesMany pedagogical approaches to teaching

When is my next holiday?How do I apply these approaches effectively in my teaching?

The mediocre teacher tells. The goodteacher explains. The superior teacherdemonstrates. The great teacherinspires. ~William Arthur Ward

TEACHING & LEARNINGTEACHING & LEARNING

TEACHING & LEARNINGTEACHING & LEARNING

TEACHING = LEARNING

MORE OFTEN THAN NOT, THIS DOES NOT HAPPEN

Principles of LearningPrinciples of Learning

Edward Thorndike developed the first three "Laws of learning:" readiness, exercise, and effect.

Since Thorndike set down his basic three laws in the early part of the twentieth century, four additional principles have been added: primacy, recency, intensity, and freedom.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Thorndike


Readiness implies a degree of single-mindedness and eagerness. Individuals learn best when they are physically, mentally, and emotionally ready to learn, and they do not learn well if they see no reason for learning.

SP Core Principles of learning 1 and 2


The principle of exercise states that those things most often repeated are best remembered. It is the basis of drill and practice. It has been proven that students learn best and retain information longer when they have meaningful practice and repetition.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Practice_(learning_method)


The principle of effect is based on the emotional reaction of the student. It has a direct relationship to motivation. The principle of effect is that learning is strengthened when accompanied by a pleasant or satisfying feeling, and that learning is weakened when associated with an unpleasant feeling


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reward_system

Primacy, the state of being first, often creates a strong, almost unshakable, impression. Things learned first create a strong impression in the mind that is difficult to erase.


SP Core Principles of learning 4

The more intense the material taught, the more likely it will be retained. A sharp, clear, vivid, dramatic, or exciting learning experience teaches more than a routine or boring experience.



The principle of freedom states that things freely learned are best learned. Conversely, the further a student is coerced, the more difficult is for him to learn, assimilate and implement what is learned.



How Student’s LearnHow Student’s Learn

A TEACHER’S REALITYA TEACHER’S REALITY

If a doctor, lawyer, or dentist had 40 people in his office at one time, all of whom had different needs, and some of whom didn't want to be there and were causing trouble, and the doctor, lawyer, or dentist, without assistance, had to treat them all with professional excellence for nine months, then he might have some conception of the classroom teacher's job.

~Donald D. Quinn

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Teacher’s RealityTeacher’s Reality

A Collaborative Approach

Work in groups and discuss the following :

-What would you have done different if this was your first day in this class?

- What strategies would you use to get the ‘symphony’ back to the classroom?

A TEACHER’S REALITY – A TEACHER’S REALITY – A CASE STUDYA CASE STUDY

What would you have done different if this was your first day in this class?

Get to know studentsDo the KWL approach – their thoughts, expectations, assumptionsSet expectations, goalsSet rulesDiagnostic testing Realistic start – do not begin with Beethoven


What strategies would you use to get the ‘symphony’ back to the classroom?

Use different approaches to teaching – authentic, collaborative, visual, audio, experientialRecognize that all students are different, playing differentinstruments so challenges are variedClass may be of mixed ability – some better than othersDifferentiated Instruction – may have to separate groups based on ability first


CONCLUSIONCONCLUSION

CONCLUSIONCONCLUSION

Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

~John Cotton Dana

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