Inspiration for a module on teaching skills

Aug 11, 2011

Hi I am now at the end of a weeklong block! IT CAN'T GO ON!!!! PLEASE any inspiration gratefully received! I am creating a second module of a yearlong course that will be on teacher training. The first course dealt with how to deliver lesson plan and our content (all made using articulate) while this course will deal with the craft of teaching! It is for an audience of African teachers who 'failed grade 9 all the way up to those who have a degree’. The course will cover things like the role of the teacher, questioning, praise and encouragement, managing behaviour and classroom organisation.   I have thought about doing this from the child’s point of view, but to be honest I am all out of inspiration and as Ken Robinson in his ted talk (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG9CE55wbtY)  says; ‘when you are in education, quite frankly you don’t find yourself at many dinner parties’…. Right now, I know what he means!

Any help GRATEFULLY received

4 Replies
Kevin Dowd

What if you did it as a scenario-based course from a new teacher's point of view?  Then the learner could act as the teacher throughout the module.

Each module could be her going through her first week.

For example, to address "managing behavior" you could do an elaborate sceanrio where a student acts out in class and then say "what do you do now"

a. send him to the principle

b. make him write he's sorry on the board 100 times

c. take him aside and explain verbally what he did wrong

d. xxxyyzzz

Like any other course you could only allow the learner to proceed once he gets the correct answer, then use each wrong option as a learning opportunity.

Hope this helps the wheels turn.

Danny Simms

Hi Clare,

Perhaps you could do it from the blackboard's perspective. They are always in the room looking out at what the teacher and students do.

The blackboard could provide examples of great and terrible teaching practices they have seen. You could have the blackboard talking by using Crazy Talk if you had a copy.

Kind regards

Danny

Ari Avivi

Claire,

Whjy limit yourself to one point of view?  HOw about create a siutation and then be able to look at it from both points of view so that the teacher gains some insight into adolecent phychology as well as teaching methodolgies.

You could create a template of a classroom, each desk might represent a different sceario, with resource buttons such as the teacher, the student, a parent and an administrator to provide different insignts and perspectives.

You could create the teacher 'module' first then as you build the other interactions start linking in that resource.

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