Skip to main content

Home/ ALT Lab/ Group items tagged up

Rss Feed Group items tagged

Filter: All | Bookmarks | Topics Simple Middle
anonymous

Penn & Teller's Teller on How to Be an Effective Teacher - The Atlantic - 1 views

www.theatlantic.com/...425100

teaching engagement

shared by anonymous on 31 Jan 16 - No Cached
  • From the moment a teacher steps into the classroom, students look to him or her to set the tone and course of study for everyone, from the most enthusiastic to the most apathetic students.
  • The first job of a teacher is to make the student fall in love with the subject. That doesn’t have to be done by waving your arms and prancing around the classroom; there’s all sorts of ways to go at it, but no matter what, you are a symbol of the subject in the students’ minds.
  • As that symbol, Teller argued, the teacher has a duty to engage, to create romance that can transform apathy into interest, and, if a teacher does her job well, a sort of transference of enthusiasm from teacher to student takes place. The best teachers, Teller contended, find a way to teach content while keeping students interested. “If you don’t have both astonishment and content, you have either a technical exercise or you have a lecture.”
  • ...3 more annotations...
  • What I have, however, is delight. I get excited about things. That is at the root of what you want out of a teacher; a delight in what the subject is, in the operation. That’s what affects students.”
  • It’s easy to disregard the entertainment of your students as pandering, but it’s not,
  • When I go outside at night and look up at the stars, the feeling that I get is not comfort. The feeling that I get is a kind of delicious discomfort at knowing that there is so much out there that I do not understand and the joy in recognizing that there is enormous mystery, which is not a comfortable thing. This, I think, is the principal gift of education.
anonymous

Study: Faculty members skeptical of digital course materials, unfamiliar with OER - 1 views

www.insidehighered.com/...ourse-materials-unfamiliar-oer

OER

shared by anonymous on 22 Feb 16 - No Cached
  • Mike Forder on 22 Feb 16
     
    Familiarity comes up again. Thanks for sharing.
Tom Woodward

Jon Orr on Twitter: ".@mr_stadel ,Slope clothesline! Used (0,2) as fixed point. After l... - 0 views

twitter.com/...698231438710280192

math lesson twitter example planning socialnetworking socialmedia weekly

shared by Tom Woodward on 16 Feb 16 - No Cached
  • Tom Woodward on 16 Feb 16
     
    lesson planning on Twitter
Jody Symula

Classroom Freedom Versus Control | Vitae - 3 views

chroniclevitae.com/...assroom-freedom-versus-control

active learning feed

shared by Jody Symula on 29 Jun 15 - No Cached
  • Jody Symula on 29 Jun 15
     
    "How do I balance my desire to integrate student-centered learning practices with my almost pathological need to have every last bit of the course planned out and thought through? Most of my pedagogy research has suggested that we as faculty should be looking for ways to give students a real sense of ownership in the classroom. One of our goals should be to create an atmosphere that leaves space for students take an active role in their own learning. How, then, do we design a course before even meeting our students? Isn't there a danger in showing up to the first day of class with a syllabus that shows the whole course planned out? By doing so, aren't we clearly communicating to the students that the instructor is in charge, that if you know what's good for you, you'll follow these rules?"
« First ‹ Previous 61 - 65 of 65
Showing 20▼ items per page