Factors That Influence How We Teach

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Factors That Influence How We Teach

• Chapter 1

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Context

• Turn to page 12
• Case Study 1.1
• What personal factors affected the way the
  teacher thought and reacted to Desmond?
• If Desmond were your student, what personal
  factors do you think would influence your
  behavior toward him?

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Factors that influence teaching

• Personal characteristics
• Gender
• Age and experience
• Personality
• Belief System

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• Experience and preparation in education
• How we were taught
• Way we prefer to learn
• Way we prefer to teach
• Knowledge of subject matter
• Teaching preparation

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• Context of teaching
• How student differences effect our teaching
• Class and classroom size
• Availability of material and equipment
• Time
• Lesson objectives
• National imperatives

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Who Are You?

• List qualities you have that will make you an
  effective teacher

• Why this quality will help you

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Gender

• Male teachers
• More dominant
• More authoritarian
• More organized
• More teacher centered
• Refer fewer students for special education
• Task-oriented (Coulter, 1987)

• Female teachers
• warmer classroom (Dunkin,1987)
• More tolerant of misbehavior
• More special education referrals
• More student centered
• nurturing

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Gender

• Commonalities
• Pay more attention to males
• Perceive boys demonstrate greater initiative
• Hold boys to a higher intellectual standard
• Lower expectations for girls
• Reward girls for good behavior and tidiness
  (Weiner, 1995)
• Have your teachers shown any of the
  gender-related behaviors reported in research?

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Age and Experience

• What differences have you seen between novice and
  experienced teachers?

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Personality

• More people-oriented than persons in other
  occupations (Morrison McIntyre, 1973)
• More interest in establishing and maintaining
  helping relationships than in their level of
  income (Powell, 1992)

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Teacher Beliefs

• Teachers who believe students CAN learn teach
  more content and insist on higher student
  performance (Ormrod, 2002).
• Teachers who place more emphasis on authority and
  control provide less engaging classroom
  activities.

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What Students Want

• Teachers who.. (Zamorski Haydn, 2002)
• Interact normally
• Friendly
• Enthusiastic
• Sense of humor
• Lets pupils talk as they work
• Praises and encourages
• Courteous
• Relaxed
• Strict

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Experience and Preparation

• You teach the way you were taught
• Direct teaching
• Teacher-centered
• Indirect teaching
• Student centered

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Teaching Preferences

• Zahorik (1990)
• What do you believe about students?
• What do you believe is the function knowledge
  should serve?
• What is the role of a teacher in the classroom?
• Which way of teaching seems most compatible with
  your present views?

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Teaching Preparation

• Content Knowledge
• Pedagogy

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ISSUES

• How can the contexts of teaching be used to best
  advantage?
• Student differences
• Class and classroom size
• Availability of material and equipment
• Available time
• Nature of lesson objectives
• National imperatives

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THURSDAY

• BRING YOUR LAPTOP TO CLASS