Transcript Teaching to enhance learning and development

TEACHING TO ENHANCE
LEARNING AND
DEVELOPMENT
Chapter 9
TEACHING: A SCIENCE & AN
ART
ECE TEACHER’S ROLE IS COMPLEX!
Know the Learner
 Know what to Teach
 Know how to Teach
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THE SCIENCE OF TEACHING
Public Law 107-220 ~ No Child Left Behind Act
of 2001 – emphasis on scientifically based
practice
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Science of child development
 Cognitive science or how people learn
 Research on effective instructional strategies and
contexts
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Based on two sets of questions:
What skills and abilities predict children’s later
outcomes in reading, writing and math?
 What teaching behaviors, curriculum, interventions
contribute to or inhibit gains
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CLASSROOM RESEARCH
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The daily interaction among teachers and
children is THE most important determinant of
the quality and effectiveness of programs from
infancy through primary grades
CLASS RESEARCH
Emotional Climate
Teachers are
positive, sensitive
and manage the
classroom well
 CLASS 5/7 points
 Positive supportive
classrooms for
children
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Instructional Climate
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Use of variety of teaching
strategies to promote
concept development and
higher order thinking
Interactions are intentional;
environment supports child
initiated learning
CLASS 2/7
Little instruction;
worksheets; 40% routines &
transitions without learning
RESEARCH HAS LIMITS
Goal is to prepare you to create an effective
instructional climate
 When research is strong – professional
responsibility to adhere to its guidance
 Research on effective teaching is evolving
 In some cases not available; in some cases
contradictory (diverse language; cultural
backgrounds; differing abilities)
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THE ART OF TEACHING
Requires Vision, Creativity, and Decision Making
 Many variables – cannot all be controlled
 Effective teaching requires creatively adapting to
individual children and to the situations that
arise
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The Wonders of Learning
 http://www.thewonderoflearning.com/exhibition/?
lang=en-GB
WONDERS OF LEARNING
WONDERS OF LEARNING
WONDERS OF LEARNING
WONDERS OF LEARNING
WONDERS OF LEARNING
WONDERS OF LEARNING
BUILD A REPERTOIRE OF
EFFECTIVE TEACHING STRATEGIES
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Teaching Strategy – Behavior or activity
deliberately selected and flexibly applied to help
students construct meaning
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INTENTIONAL TEACHING
Conscious thought
 Flexible decision making
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Learning Strategy - How children construct
meaning in any context or situation
TOOLS FOR LEARNING
Teacher Initiated
Teacher takes the lead
 Provides explicit
information and
modeling or
demonstrates a skill
 Determined by the
teacher’s goals and
direction
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Child Initiated
Child gains knowledge
and skills
 Through their own
exploration
 Interactions with
objects and other
children
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AN ARRAY OF TEACHING
STRATEGIES
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Acknowledging and encouraging
Giving quality feedback
Modeling
Demonstrating
Giving cues, hints and offering assistance
Creating and adding challenges
Questioning
Co-Constructing
Giving direct or explicit instruction
Scaffolding – combining strategies
THE POWER OF SCAFFOLDING
Integrated Approach to reach all students
 Scaffolding – elevated structure; support to do
the work; reach the goal
 Metaphor for a series of teacher behaviors that
support children’s ability to accomplish learning
tasks or solve a problem that they could not
otherwise accomplish independently.
 Scaffolding = working in the zone of proximal
development
 Teacher takes responsibility and gradually
releases it to the child until they have full
responsibility
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WONDERS OF LEARNING
I do…
you watch
 I do…
you help
 You do…
I help
 You do…
I watch
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