CLASS 28 EDUC 4454

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CLASS 28 EDUC 4454

• DIFFERENT LENSES ON TEACHING AND LEARNING

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CLASS 28 EDUC 4454 AGENDA
DIFFERENT LENSES

• Optimizing Learning Video Collage
• Review for Exam
• Course Evaluations

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Different Lenses
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OPTIMIZING LEARNING

• How will you optimize learning?
• Professor Gradgrind Clip
• What type of learning environment will you
  create?

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OPTIMIZING LEARNING

• Seven Keys to Optimizing Learning (Adapted from
  B. Clark)
• Responsive Learning Environment
• Participation, respect, sharing (planning),
  variety
• Flexible and integrated curriculum based on needs
  and interests of learners
• Small group, individual emphasis
• Inquiry, conferences
• Promotes growth in social, emotional, physical,
  cognitive and intuitive areas

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OPTIMIZING LEARNING

• Have you discovered the real passion of teaching?
• Mr. Hollands Opus Clip

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OPTIMIZING LEARNING

• Relaxation and Tension Reduction
• Mind and Body in tune
• Music, colour, order
• Supports assimilation and accommodation
• Movement and Physical Encoding
• Change of place, position, posture
• Senses rhythms, role-playing, concrete
  materials, simulations
• Fosters greater precision and retention

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OPTIMIZING LEARNING

• Empowering language and behaviour
• Active listening, encouraging remarks,
  reinforcing statements (verbal, non-verbal, overt
  physical responses)
• Increases motivation, responsibility,
  self-concept, positive attitude, risk-taking

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OPTIMIZING LEARNING

• Have you recognized the importance of looking at
  teaching and learning in different ways?
• Have you found your own voice?
• How will you seize the day?
• Dead Poets Society Clip

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OPTIMIZING LEARNING

• Choice and perceived choice
• Opportunities for decision-making
• Develops values and self-image
• Complex and challenging cognitive activity
• Left brain/right brain integrated functions,
  meaningful experiences
• Emotional, physical, intuitive areas are
  supported

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OPTIMIZING LEARNING

• Intuition and integration
• Fantasy, imagery, metaphor, visualization
• Access to divergent, creative thinking

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OPTIMIZING LEARNING

• How will you begin?
• How will you optimize learning?
• Pay It Forward Clip

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OPTIMIZING LEARNING

• I pass the buck to you
• Think of an idea to change the world

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OPTIMIZING LEARNING

• One hundred years from now it will not matter
• What kind of car I drove,
• What kind of house I lived in,
• How much I had in the bank account,
• Or what my clothes looked like.
• But the world will be a better place because
• I was important in the life of a child.

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Methods Exam What do we study?
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Methods Exam What do we study?
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Methods Exam What do we study?

• ASSESSMENT/EVALUATION/REPORTING PRACTICES
• Principles of Assessment
• Different Assessment Strategies
• Different Recording Devices
• Reporting/Interviews/Conferences

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Methods Exam What do we study?

• PLANNING
• Backward Design/Design Down Model
• Planning Steps (lesson/unit/long range)
• Refer to handouts and notes

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Methods Exam What do we study?

• TEACHING/LEARNING STRATEGIES
• Co-operative Learning (Principles/Strategies)
• Questioning Strategies (Blooms/Q-Matrix/Quilt)

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Methods Exam What do we study?

• PLANNING AND ORGANIZATION OF TEACHING/LEARNING
• Centres (routines/introductions/learning
  potential)
• Learning Styles/Multiple Intelligences

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EXAM JIGSAW FORMAT

• Session A Home Groups (3-5 min.)
• select reps for different topics
• Session B Expert Groups (15-20 min.)
• discuss specific topic information (content)
• take notes to share with your Home Groups
• Session C Home Groups (20-25 min.)
• share input from each topic with others
• discuss the implications of what you learned
• 5 minutes whole group

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CLASS 28 EDUC 4454

• Course Evaluations