Question 5: What teaching techniques would you use for your course and target population‚ including reasons for your choice? Software Development is one of the main courses that I often teach. In order to teach this course to my students at undergraduate level‚ I use an eclectic approach by combining various teacher-centered and student-centered teaching techniques. In fact‚ due to the nature of this course‚ both theoretical education and practical work are required (Damian‚ Hadwin‚ & Al-Ani
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DIALOGIC TEACHING ESSENTIALS Robin Alexander University of Cambridge 1. WHAT IS DIALOGIC TEACHING? Dialogic teaching harnesses the power of talk to stimulate and extend pupilsʼ thinking and advance their learning and understanding. It helps the teacher more precisely to diagnose pupilsʼ needs‚ frame their learning tasks and assess their progress. It empowers the student for lifelong learning and active citizenship. Dialogic teaching is not just any talk. It is as distinct from the
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“Advantages and Disadvantages to Teaching” Teaching is one of the things I always desired to do. Growing up I admired my teachers and their enthusiasm they had towards teaching. Though teaching sounds like a supreme job‚ there are always advantages and disadvantages when it comes to teaching. Just like any other occupation there may be things we may not like. So‚ today I am going to address what the advantages and disadvantages to being a teacher are. An advantage to teaching is interaction you will have
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Learning and Collaborative Teaching Ashley M. Quinton Dr. James W. Dodson II EDUC 503 September 17‚ 2014 Cooperative learning exists in a wide variety of facets by which teachers and students work together in order to solve problems and reach a common goal. The main goal is that the students attain mastery of the subject matter being taught. In order for mastery to occur‚ several factors must be examined and presented in ways that make the goal attainable. Cooperative teaching and collaboration between
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Teaching cannot come about until one has learned how to teach‚ but what truly is a teacher? I have found that teaching goes further than demonstrating how to “do things” and is more about showing how to “live things.” In life a person continuously learns and grows and the same goes for a teacher; they are constantly shaping and reshaping their ideologies. From these ideologies a prospective teacher forms a philosophy of teaching that will guide them through the years of paper grading and parent teacher
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Nursing 205 VATNP October 30‚ 2013 Abstract The purpose of the Cancer Awareness Teaching Project is for a group of nursing students to go into the community of Buchanan County and teach at least five citizens with audible and visual material with early cancer detection signs and signs and symptoms of cancer. The nursing students in our group began by giving the group a pre-knowledge cancer survey‚ followed by a seminar on early detection. After the seminar the participants were asked to complete
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As a teacher teaching in such a diverse school district‚ I would be sensitive to my students’ cultural‚ academic and economic differences. In my classroom I strive to create culturally sensitive learning communities and develop a positive teacher-student-parent relationship. Lesson plans are designed to motivate all students to learn‚ at their own level of learning‚ and allow me to use differentiated instructional strategies with hope of maximizing student learning. I would hope that after taking
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An Essay (a) Discuss four principles of Constructivism theory. (b) Describe‚ using appropriate examples‚ how you would adapt the selected learning theory in executing four of the central task of teaching in your classroom. ‘The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate “apparently ordinary” people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people (K. Patricia Cross).’ The
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Synectics ModelUniversity of New Mexico Abstract This paper explores the experience of synectics‚ a teaching model that comes from the informational-processing family. This model is known as the art of enhancing creative thought and through our group experience it has given us proof. Creativity is a huge part of the model and its purpose is to bring out creativity from the students. Synectics brings all children the process of metaphoric thinking known as the foundation of creative thought. As
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MATH TEACHING METHODS 1. 1. Teaching and Learning – no easy task – complex process. 2. 2. Each pupil is an individual with a unique personality. 3. 3. Pupils acquire knowledge‚ skills and attitudes at different times‚ rates and ways. 4. 4. 8 general teaching methods for math: Co-operative learning Exposition Guided discovery Games Laboratory approach Simulations Problem solving Investigations 5. For effective teaching use a combination
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