TEACHING SKILLFULLY TO ENGAGE STUDENTS

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TEACHING SKILLFULLY TO ENGAGE STUDENTS

• Stephen Brookfield
• Distinguished University Professor
• University of St. Thomas

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ASSUMPTIONS OF SKILLFUL TEACHING

• Sincerity of Our Teaching is Not Correlated with
  Students Goodwill
• Good Practice Whatever Helps Students Learn
• Best Teaching is Critically Reflective
• Most Important Pedagogic Knowledge - How Students
  Experience Learning
• Context Changes Everything

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CIQ

• Most Engaged Moment
• Most Distanced Moment
• Most Helpful Action
• Most Puzzling Action
• What Surprised You Most

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WHY CIQs?

• Problems Warned
• Grounds Actions
• Student Reflectivity
• Builds Trust
• Diverse Methods
• Critical Thinking

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CIRCLE OF VOICES

• Begin with a minutes quiet thought
• Go round the group have each person speak their
  thoughts on the topic for up to a minute NO
  INTERRUPTIONS ALLOWED
• Move into open conversation but you can only
  talk about what someone else said in the opening
  round

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QUESTION

• What would you like your students (or colleagues)
  to say about your class when they were out of
  your earshot?

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CREDIBILITY

• Expertise
• Experience
• Rationale
• Conviction

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AUTHENTICITY

• Congruence
• Full Disclosure
• Responsiveness
• Personhood
• Error

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EMOTIONAL LEARNING

• What would you say to someone who is starting to
  teach about the emotional ups and downs they can
  expect in their work?

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CIRCULAR RESPONSE

• Pose a question
• Each person in the group has the floor for 1
  minute NO INTERRUPTIONS. However, whatever you
  say MUST respond to/build on the previous
  speakers comments
• Once all have spoken move into open conversation
  with no ground rules

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EMOTIONAL REALITY CHECK

• Impostorship
• Cultural Suicide
• Lost Innocence
• Resistance as Normal
• The Perfect Ten
• Limits Inevitability of Power
• Informed Muddling Through

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RESOURCES

• THE SKILLFUL TEACHER On Technique, Trust
  Responsiveness in the Classroom. San Francisco
  Jossey Bass, 2006 (2nd. Edition)
• Home Pages
• www.stephenbrookfield.com
• www.the99ersband.com