Transcript Models of Teaching - Pearson Education

Models of Teaching
EEX 3257
Spring 2006
Motivation to Learn
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Teacher Characteristics
A safe and orderly classroom
Instructional factors
INTASC Principles
(Interstate New Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium)
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Knowledge of subject
Learning and human
development
Adapting instruction
Strategies
Motivation and
management
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Communication skills
Planning
Assessment
Commitment
Partnership
Teaching for Understanding
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Identify learning
objectives
Select teaching
strategies
Provide examples and
representations
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Encourage active
student involvement on
learning
Guide students
Continually monitor
evidence of learning
What factors influence choice of strategy?
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Teacher
Student
Content
Strategies vs Models
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Strategies
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Questioning
Organizing lessons
Providing feedback
Ending lessons with review
and closure
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Models
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Designed for specific forms
of content and to develop
critical-thinking abilities
Include a series of specific
steps
Grounded in learning
theory
Supported by motivation
theory
Theories of Learning
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Behavioral theory
Cognitive theory
Behavioral Theory
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Learning is
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Change in behavior
Result of experience
Learning depends upon
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Reinforcement
Punishment
Cognitive Theory
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Theories of learning primarily concerned with:
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Perception
 Problem solving
 Information processing
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Seeks to understand:
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. The nature of information
How information is organized and acquired
How information can be recalled and analyzed or modified
Bloom’s Taxonomy:
Original and Revised
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Evaluation
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Creating
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Synthesis
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Evaluating
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Analysis
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Analyzing
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Application
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Applying
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Comprehension
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Understanding
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Knowledge
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Remembering
(Based on Pohl, 2000, Learning to Think, Thinking to Learn, p. 8)
Sample Unit: Travel
Remembering
List
all the ways you can travel from one place to another.
Describe one of the vehicles from your list, draw a diagram and label the parts.
Make a poster using“transportation” pictures from magazines.
Understanding
Explain
Applying
Explain
Analyzing
Make
Evaluating
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Creating
Design
the method of travel you use to get from home to school.
Draw a map of the route you take going home in the afternoon
Compare the first bicycles with today’s models.
why some vehicles are large and others small. Write a story about the
uses of both.
Survey 10 other children about the bikes they ride. Chart the results.
Demonstrate the correct way to cross the street on your bike.
a mural showing children using bikes safely.
Write a report about problems with modern forms of transport and their uses.
Compare boats to planes.
changes in traffic laws do you think would prevent accidents?
Rate transport from slow to fast etc..
a vehicle. Draw or construct it after careful planning.
What sort of transport will there be in twenty years? Discuss, write about it and
report to the class.
Bloom’s Practice
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Choose a lesson topic
Using the handouts, develop an objective or
activity and questions related to your lesson
topic for each level of Bloom’s taxonomy