Title: Would you persuade,
1?
- Would you persuade,
- speak of interest,
- not of reason. Benjamin Franklin .
2Teaching, learning and knowing are three
different activities. Knowing especially
knowing how to learn is one mark of the
educated person. Teaching is simply away to
promote that outcome. Charles Wright
3A saint is one who makes goodness attractive
Laurence Houseman
4A teacher is one who makes learning attractive
5The mediocre teacher tellsThe good teacher
explainsThe superior teacher demonstrates The
great teacher inspires William A. Ward
6Students learn what they care about,from people
they care aboutand who, they know, care about
them Thirty Years of StoriesBarbara Harrell
Carso
7Design SIMPLICITY HONESTY ACCESSIBILITY
ENJOYMENTJonathan Ive (designer of the iMac)
8The true teacher defends his pupils against his
own personal influence Amos Bronson
Alcott
He inspires self-distrust
He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit
that quickens him
He will have no disciple
9A teacher is one who makes himself progressively
unnecessary Thomas Carruthers
10Improving ones teaching effectiveness why do it?
11What is your agenda?
- Wanna maximize the transference of knowledge?
- Is that it?
- OR you want to change the way they think?
12It's not what is poured into a student that
counts, but what is plantedLinda Conway
13When teaching, light a fire, don't fill a
bucketDan Snow
14How to teach when they dont want to be taught?
15grab it! (how?)keep it! (how?)
16 17DatabasesWhat are they?What do they do?Why
were they invented?
18The use of COBOL cripples the mind its teaching
should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal
offense Edgar W. Dijkstra
19Lectures are one of the most effective methods of
conveying infotruefalse
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20Lectures should be abolished
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21Lectures are better than reading material at
inspiring students to appreciate the importance
of key info
22Above all lectures can better create a state
of intellectual excitement that promotes learning
23?
Create a state of intellectual excitement
24thinking isthe greatest of pleasures Goethe
25asking questions
26Life is not about right wrong answersIt is
about the perpetual pursuit of increasingly
sophisticated questions
27can computers think?
281- click navigation
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29Concept Feasibility
User Requirements
Test
Developer Specs
Test
Planning
Test
Design
Test
Implementation
Test
Integration Testing
Opr. Maintenance
Acceptance Test
Retirement
30Main Drawbacks
31Lack of knowledge about requirements
Lag
Concept Feasibility
User Requirements
Test
Developer Specs
Test
Planning
Test
Design
Test
Implementation
Test
Integration Testing
Opr. Maintenance
Acceptance Test
Retirement
32answering questions
33- Chinese proverb
- Tell me, I forget.
- Show me, I remember.
- Involve me, I understand.
34Complement their effort enthusiasm before
offering criticism
35The secret of education is respecting the
pupilRalph Waldo Emerson
36A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential
to fasten the truth upon the ordinary
mind Howard Crosby
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38Stories
39Theatrics!
40Passion!
41Humor!
42When using comedy, make sure that all humor
arises from the teaching points if they
remember the joke, theyve remembered the
training point. John Cleese
43Clarity!
44trust!
45Nothing so impresses a student as a lecturer who
makes a genuine effort to get to know them as
individuals
46To be an outstanding teacher, one must genuinely
like college-age students, and identify with
their interests, both serious and foolish
47Ah. If you could dance all that youve just
said, then Id understand. Nikos Kazanztakis
in Zorba the Greek
48What all the great teachers appear to have in
common is love of their subject and an obvious
satisfaction in arousing this love in their
students J. Epstine
49- Speech Habits
- Eye Contact
- Gestures
- Movement
50white boards transparencies multimedia
51Planning course content
to maximize interest
52The greatest danger for most of us is not that
our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it
is too low and we reach it Michelangelo
53Exams
54Dynamic lecturers captivate a class by the
virtuosity of their individual performance
Master discussion leaders accomplish the same end
by skillful guidance of the groups collective
thinking process
55What can I do right away?
56the feedback loop
57Online Resources
- A Berkeley Compendium of Suggestions for Teaching
with Excellence - Teaching Tips Teaching Learning Center at
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
58Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion,
but by awakening a pure interest in
knowledgeThe wise instructor accomplishes this
by opening to his pupils precisely the
attractions the study has for himself Ralph
Waldo Emerson
59!
- Would you persuade,
- speak of interest,
- not of reason. Benjamin Franklin .