Increasing Students' Learning Opportunities
Making a Classroom a Learning Space
Teachers' Expectations
Elements of Students' Learning
Ingredients for Successful Teaching
100
This suffers when a student's perception is that the instructor is a figure-head NOT a friend.
What is Learning Opportunity
100
A psychological, not physical space that the teacher is responsible for creating.
What is a true learning space?
100
Compensating abundantly for the sacrifice of breadth.
What is thoroughness and depth?
100
Does not come easy, but the opposite is readily acquired
What is Patience
100
Faith in your students
What is the most essential ingredient in good teaching practices for an instructor?
200
A teacher must actively provide this for the welfare of the students.
What is Care and Concern
200
A space where all parties (teachers and learners) are dedicated to personal goals and feel free to offer constructive feedback.
What is a learning group?
200
JThis person noted that the mark of immaturity is a desire to die for a cause, but maturity brings the willingness to live humbly for one.
Who is J. D. Salinger?
200
A learning environment under which "Inquiry, growth, and learning flourish "
What is Low Pressure
200
actively engaging students
What is the most critical component of learning?
300
These various groups are responsible for placing distance between teachers and students.
What is Educational Conventions
300
An atmosphere created by teachers that helps students believe they have something of value to contribute.
What is intellectual hospitality?
300
Lies in a constant struggle for improvement, rather than a quest for final results.
What is wisdom and effectiveness?
300
This does not always lead to effective learning
What is Effective Teaching
300
Fun in the classroom
What is the secret to preventing a routine, humdrum, boring class?
400
The type of setting provides the benefit obtained from mutual learning.
What is Open Setting
400
A technique used by teachers to support students who may get into murky waters while trying to promote/defend a complex or unpopular point of view.
What is a "safety net?"
400
The most powerful of all expectations.
What are modest expectations?
400
A learning environment in which students are not given time to nurture, tend, and mature at their own pace on the information taught.
What is Forcing information
400
Helping a student understand their competence, or lack thereof, without destroying their confidence level.
What is a teacher's greatest challenge when evaluating a student?
500
An essential characteristic that students are more concerned with finding in a teacher (more so than the teacher's knowledge).
What is Caring about the student
500
A working partnership that is fostered between teacher and student.
What is a community?
500
The impact a teacher can make on each of us by stimulating interest in a topic, providing a role model, or molding our basic values and beliefs.
What is a personal experience?
500
They must bring to each class infinite patience, moderate judgments, respect, protection, and honor, and do it in a context of positive belief in students
What are Teachers
500
teaching/education
What is crucial to the maintenance and advancement of civilization?