Agenda

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Agenda

• This class is for EDUC 0106 Students
• Changes to course
• School Information - Practice Teaching Office
• Website - http//www.nipissingu.ca/faculty/dougb/
• Course Outline Expectations
• Lecture One

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Teach Your Heart Out in Every Class

• With thanks to Jack Jones
• Nipissing University
• September 9th, 2005

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Introduction

• My challenge is to provide you with some
  knowledge about teacher education in Ontario so
  some of you will be better teachers/people for
  the rest of your lives.
• I have less than 6 University hours to accomplish
  this task.
• Lets get started!!

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Teach Your Heart Out Todays Agenda

• 1 An interesting activity
• 2 What is education?
• 3 What is teaching?
• 4 What is learning?
• 5 Tips for teaching
• 6 Concluding remarks - solution to the activity.

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What is education?
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Goals of Education

• Knowledge
• Cognitive Skills

• Social Skills
• Self Concept, (Attitudes toward self, others,
  life)

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Goals Of Education
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What is teaching? Definition 1

• P
• I
• E

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What is teaching? Definition 1

• Planning
• Implementation
• Evaluation

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What is teaching? Definition 2

• Routines
• Pre-active planning
• Knowledge and convictions about content, pedagogy
  and student needs
• Teacher reflection

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What Is Teaching? Definition 3

• Planning skills
• Classroom management
• Knowledge of human growth and development
• Knowledge of content
• Human relation skills
• Use of teaching aids

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What Is Teaching? Definition 4

• Observing and interpreting student behaviours
• Planning and implementing learning activities
• Evaluating and modifying the learning activities
• Observing and interpreting student behaviours
• Planning and implementing learning activities
• Evaluating and modifying the learning activities
• Observing and interpreting student behaviours
• Planning and implementing learning activities
• And so on forever and ever until you retire

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What Is Teaching? Definition 5

• A non routine set of activities
• that draws upon a reliable body of technical
  knowledge
• that are conducted in collaboration with other
  people
• in a positive,
• respectful,
• enjoyable climate.
• Jack Jones Sept.
  7, 2000.

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What Is Learning?

• Learning is attaching meaning to something that
  you didnt understand before
• sometimes its correct (hurray)
• and sometimes its wrong (ouch)

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Tips for Teaching

• Use positive reinforcement. (Because it
  enhances learning!)
• Make learning fun and relevant at the same time.
  (Anxiety affects learning!)
• Exercise patience when the other person(s)
  is(are) not paying attention.
• Take into account different learning styles.

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Learning Styles

• Auditory
• Visual
• Tactile (Kinesthetic)

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Tips for Teaching

• 5. Take into account what you know about multiple
  intelligences
• Linguistic intelligence (Winston Churchill)
• Mathematical intelligence (Marian Diamond)
• Visual intelligence (Picasso)
• Interpersonal intelligence (Clinton, Gretzky)

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Tips for Teaching

• Musical intelligence (Barbra Streisand, Mozart)
• Body intelligence (Silken Lauman, Vince Carter,
  Tiger Woods)
• Social intelligence (Oprah Winfrey, Pamela
  Wallin, Regis Philbin)
• Intrapersonal intelligence (Mother Theresa,
  Margaret Atwood, Gandhi)

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Tips for Teaching

• 6. Provide the learner with an opportunity to be
  actively involved in the lesson.
• 7. Encourage the learner to be creative and to
  take risks.
• 8. If you fail.experience fast failureand
  move on.

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Tips for Teaching

• 9. Be aware of your ability to recognize your
  own emotions and the emotions of others and to be
  sensitive to those feelings.
• 10. Share your successes with your spouse, your
  lover, your best friend, your closest colleague.

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Now What ?

• Remember my challenge

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Introduction

• My challenge is to provide you with some
  knowledge about teacher education in Ontario so
  some of you will be better teachers/people for
  the rest of your lives.

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Tips for Teaching

• 1. Positive reinforcement
• 2. Fun
• 3. Patience
• 4. Learning styles
• 5. Multiple Intelligences

• 6. Actively involved
• 7. Risk-taking , creative
• 8. Fast failure
• 9. Emotional intelligence
• 10. Share your successes!!!

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What have you learned (or been reminded of)
that makes you a better teacher for todays
society ?

• Key Question????

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One Final Thought for this Session!

• If people are not learning the way we teach
• Then maybe we should consider teaching the way
  they learn.
• Whatever you decide to do, do it with all your
  heart.