Director of the Interdisciplinary Graduate Certificate in University Teaching @ UGA
Who is Dr. Kyle Woosnam?
What anyone who has gone to school brings with them into the teaching preparation experience
What is the Apprenticeship of Observation (Lotrie, 1975).
Randomly selecting a student in class to answer a question.
What is "cold calling"?
Term used to explain that human's brains are wired for negative.
What's is the "Brain's negative bias"?
Teacher-centered model of education that sees learning as the instructor pouring knowledge into learners' brains.
What is the "Banking model of education"?
Peers from GRSC 7200 who are currently teaching
Who are Teri & Olu?
Inability to put oneself in a beginner's position in our subject-matter and/or the assumption of prior knowledge when teaching.
What is the "expert blindspot" (Nathan & Koediner, 2000; 2003)?
Developmentally speaking, 20% of these students are able to "create knowledge" at this point of their undergraduate career.
Who are juniors and seniors?
Review of a colleague's teaching
What is "peer review of teaching"?
Learners actively build knowledge and meaning through personal experience, prior schema, and social interaction rather than passively absorbing lectures.
What is "Constructivism"?
Place on campus where you can get free food
What is the "UGA Food Pantry"?
Combination of high academic and behavioral expectations with deep personal care and cultural warmth.
What is "warm demander" (Kleinfeld, 1972; Delpit, 2006)?
Food, water, rest, clothing, & warmth are at the bottom of this pyramid
What is "Maslow's hierarchy of needs"?
Proactive, future-focused approach to provide guidance, suggestions, and support before or during a task.
What is "feedforward"?
Theory that sees the mind as a computer that processes, stores, and retrieves information, relying on memory, attention, and schema organization.
What is "Cognitivism"?
Place on campus where you can print a poster for a conference
What is Tate Center?
Statement that articulates one's approach to teaching, reasons for teaching in that way, & the values that inform those decisions
What is one's "teaching philosophy"?
According to this psychologist "evaluation" and "creation" are two of the most cognitively demanding skills for humans.
Who is Benjamin Bloom?
Active learning activity used to get learners to quickly demonstrate what they understood during class, usually used as a ticket-out-the-door.
What is "one minute paper"?
Theory that explains learning by considering the whole individual, their emotional safety, personal growth, and intrinsic motivation.
What is "Humanism"?
What's the FLAGPOLE?
According to Schoem and colleagues (2017), this is the act of connecting academic subject matter with a student's core values, lived experiences, heart, mind, and spirit
What is "engaged learning"?
Assessment that learners complete at the end of a course, chapter, or unit.
What is "summative assessment"?
Two similar active learning strategies used to help learners organize and group their thoughts.
What are "concept mapping" and "sticky-note clustering"?
This theory posits that cognitive development and learning are deeply shaped by social interaction and cultural context.
What is "Sociocultural Theory"?