Teaching as Performance
Monitor your own verbal and nonverbal communication so you are clear, organized, enthusiastic, and sensitive.
What are ways to avoid conflicting, confusing, and discouraging messages in lessons?
This can be either the focal point of a lesson or simply a tool with which to teach the lesson.
What is Technology?
Gamification is the process of using game elements in a non-game activity, like learning. Students may work solo or in these, much like in real life, in order to see who can make sense of the information best or quickest.
What are teams?
Creating a teaching philosophy statement relies on these four, key components.
Beliefs, Strategies, Impact, Future goals
Experts agree, an expert teaching style, one of these, gives students a knowledgeable instructor but might be intimidating and lead to less active learning.
What is a teacher-centered approach?
This Mahna-mnemonic will help you remember basic communication skills.
What is M... MUPPETS?
M - modulate your voice
M - move around the room
U - understand there will be questions
P - patience
P - paraphrase and repeat information
E - eye contact
T - Talk slowly, loudly, and clearly
S - Summarize information
The flipped classroom, which relies on the use of technology, is considered a student-centered type of this.
What is a teaching model?
Learning and libraries can often be intimidating. Gamification allows teachers to help student build their skills by learning without thinking about learning, creating an effortless focus and concentration. Psychologists refer to that as this.
One of the five ways the reading suggests to practice your commitment to continuous improvement.
What is/are...?
1.) Gather formative and summative feedback on your teaching
2.) Practice critical self-reflection
3.) Consult scholarly literature on teaching and learning
4.) Engage in meaningful conversations with colleagues
5.) Identify clear goals for strengthening your teaching practice
This dome-shaped muscle that separates the chest cavity from the abdominal cavity, can help control the amount of breath you use when you are speaking loudly and for a longer period of time, or projecting your voice.
What is the diaphragm?
Things you can do if a student is causing a disruption.
What are engage them in an activity, politely remind them why the session is important, indicate you have noticed their behavior by moving closer or asking them a question, enlist the help of another teacher or librarian, and, as a last resort, ask them to leave the room?
When giving a lesson about software, utilizing pre-recorded, video these will help explain the different features and can even help go step-by-step.
Tutorial
When creating a game for instruction purposes, you start by figuring out what skill you want the o it's really just a matter of taking a lesson that you want to teach a skill. You want a learning outcome. And then using a little creativity to devise a way for students to want to find that outcome in a fun way. So
What is a learning outcome?
Teaching philosophy statements can support growth and development as educators by doing this.
What is providing an opportunity to reflect upon and communicate why we do what we do to support teaching and learning?
"Cheat out to the audience!" This theatre phrase refers to facing your audience so they can do this.
What is see your face and hear you?
The wackiest thing you can picture yourself doing to facilitate learning in a classroom.
I: "What is doing a dance for my students?"
F: "What is educational song-making and making parody songs?"
Were you hesitant to participate in online learning? If so, what were your hesitations? If no, what about online learning appealed to you?
I:
F: I wasn't as hesitant as I should've been. I found I liked the hybrid model better after doing one online and one hybrid class in the same semester. I liked the thought of less in-class time so I had more time to do things in my major or that were extra-curricular. I didn't think about needing the accountability of talking about readings and face-to-face interaction being so useful in my absorption of information.
What games do you remember most from school?
I: The game I remember the most was Kahoot and Jeopardy
F: When someone asks what radicalized me, 9th grade honors history class, boys vs girls Jeopardy (5 girls vs 15+ boys because we collectively had the best grades in the class), and our teacher being so hurt that his big group of boys didn't win so he "forgot to count" our points so they could win.
Who or what has most informed your teaching approaches?
I:
F: The trauma of "Write the instructions for how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich" back in elementary school kind of stuck with me.
Which Teaching Style do you relate with the most, either from experience or from reading about them? For those with experience, has your teaching style changed over time?
I: I relate the most to the expert style as a pre school teacher. I have started to incorporate more music and movement based learning in my classroom
F: I think I oscillate between being the facilitator and being the personal model.