Science and Art of Teaching for Enhanced Learning

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Science and Art of Teaching for Enhanced
Learning
Sudhir Mehta
North Dakota State University
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Science and Art Defined
Science is knowledge or a system of knowledge
covering general truths or the operation of
general laws especially as obtained and tested
through the scientific method. Art, in its
broadest meaning, is the expression of creativity
or imagination, or both.
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The Taxonomy of Significant Learning
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National Research Council Reports
How People Learn Brain, Mind, Experience, and
School (1999). How People Learn Bridging
Research and Practice (2000). Knowing What
Students Know The Science and Design of
Educational Assessment (2001). The Knowledge
Economy and Postsecondary Education (2002).
Chapter 6 Creating High-Quality Learning
Environments Guidelines from Research on How
People Learn.
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Teaching Methods for Enhanced Learning

• Active/Cooperative Learning
• Problem-based learning
• Case-based learning
• Project-based learning
• Learning by design
• Inquiry learning

John Bransford, Nancy Vye and Helen Bateman.
Creating High-Quality Learning Environments
Guidelines from Research on How People Learn
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Demonstration

• Amy drives from her home to her grandmas home at
  60 miles/hour.
• On her return trip, due to fog, she drives at 40
  miles/hour.
• What is her average driving speed on road in
  miles/hour?
• 1) 46, 2) 48, 3) 50, 4) 52, 5) 54

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Motivating Students to Learn - The T.A.R.G.E.T
Model

• Task variety of learning activities
• Authority is shared
• Recognition to all deserving students
• Grouping community and collaboration
• Evaluation a variety of assessment tools
• Time is scheduled more flexibly

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Resources

• www.ndsu.edu/facultyresources
• Graduate Students
• Nancy Lilliberg, ITS
• Jeff Gerst, Ed Deckard, Teaching Academy Council
  Members, Sudhir Mehta

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Final Thoughts

• When you want to teach someone, you go over to
  where (s/)he is standing, take him by the hand
  (mentally speaking), and guide him.
• You dont stand across the room you dont call
  him a dummy you dont order him to come over to
  where you are.
• You start where he is, and work from that
  position.
• That is a way to get him to learn.
• - Adapted from Thomas Acquinas

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Final Thoughts Continued

• William Ouchi encourages all of us in the
  business of educating students by stating
• Above all, I want to encourage you to keep at
  it, even when you are discouraged, tired, and
  frustrated.
• Dont give up.
• Many things can wait the child can not. Now is
  the time his bones are being formed his hand is
  being developed. To him, we can not say tomorrow
  his name is today.
• When we do this, we can experience bliss.
• We are blessed to be in the education business.