Different teachers have different styles, Some bring frowns, others smiles. Hopefully it’s the latter of the two, Unless of course it happens, that you - Turn out to be a total psycho nutcase.
"Our school isn't poor, We just based our uniform on Oliver! Wonderful Movie."
While the previous Issues lecture was based around practicalities and the answering of student’s questions, namely ‘what’s with VELS’ and ‘how do you do a lesson plan?’ This weeks lecture was focused firmly on the theoretical and the provoking of questions in students minds.
As the title suggests it outlined various models of teaching and learning.These ranged from asking what was our belief system and comparing Top Down, Social Model and Bottom Up or ‘Radical’ methods of teaching.
Also in comparison to last week the lecture utilised a large number of video clips, however, there was one point of similarity.There were lots of lists and categorisation.
There was the:
Nine Guiding Principles (Melbourne Model)
POLT – Principles of Learning and Teaching
Gardner’s Nine Multiple Intelligences
Marzano’s Six Basic Notions
The 5 E’s of Teaching
The Creative/Competition/Cooperation Model
There was also certainly a few more than slipped my mind.While it was not possible to go into detail with these theories it did give you a jumping off point and helped you think more about your own belief behind teaching (or educating if you prefer).
The tutorial followed on well from the lecture despite not following the Socratic Circle model outlined in the lecture.By looking into Bloom’s Stages of Questions and further into Gardner we were able to see how these theoretical models might work in the real world of the classroom.
Week 5 - Models of Teaching and Learning
Different teachers have different styles,
Some bring frowns, others smiles.
Hopefully it’s the latter of the two,
Unless of course it happens, that you -
Turn out to be a total psycho nutcase.
"Our school isn't poor, We just based our uniform on Oliver! Wonderful Movie."
While the previous Issues lecture was based around practicalities and the answering of student’s questions, namely ‘what’s with VELS’ and ‘how do you do a lesson plan?’ This weeks lecture was focused firmly on the theoretical and the provoking of questions in students minds.
As the title suggests it outlined various models of teaching and learning. These ranged from asking what was our belief system and comparing Top Down, Social Model and Bottom Up or ‘Radical’ methods of teaching.
Also in comparison to last week the lecture utilised a large number of video clips, however, there was one point of similarity. There were lots of lists and categorisation.
There was the:
There was also certainly a few more than slipped my mind. While it was not possible to go into detail with these theories it did give you a jumping off point and helped you think more about your own belief behind teaching (or educating if you prefer).
The tutorial followed on well from the lecture despite not following the Socratic Circle model outlined in the lecture. By looking into Bloom’s Stages of Questions and further into Gardner we were able to see how these theoretical models might work in the real world of the classroom.
MJK