Reflections

The Best Teacher Questions

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Do your teachers (whether they be in school, your boss, your parents, or yourself) think of this list before they teach you?

  • How can I prepare and present information in a way that motivates my students to love learning?
  • How do I teach a group when some students learn faster or have more background than others?
  • How do I find a consistent teaching method when students have such different teaching styles?
  • How can I control the classroom and still give students individual freedom?
  • How can I make a deep, life-changing impact on my students?

Just think if every boss, teacher, employer, mom and dad thought of these questions.  This is what I am going to strive to do. 

(list from Learning and Teaching for Exponential Growth – A three person problem by Susan Peterson Gong)

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The Best Teacher Questions

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Do your teachers (whether they be in school, your boss, your parents, or yourself) think of this list before they teach you?

  • How can I prepare and present information in a way that motivates my students to love learning?
  • How do I teach a group when some students learn faster or have more background than others?
  • How do I find a consistent teaching method when students have such different teaching styles?
  • How can I control the classroom and still give students individual freedom?
  • How can I make a deep, life-changing impact on my students?

Just think if every boss, teacher, employer, mom and dad thought of these questions.  This is what I am going to strive to do. 

(list from Learning and Teaching for Exponential Growth – A three person problem by Susan Peterson Gong)

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Competition – Good for Learning or Not?

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I read in The First Days of School, about how grading on a curve is
not the best method. It pits the students against each other, and
makes more of the focus on the grade verse learning.
 
But then I thought about how competition can be a powerful motivator.
I started think about ways to use competition in learning to increase
and help.
 
I came up with these ideas
1. class verses class – assign a project that will be judged
impartially with a prize for the best class
 
2. outside competition – if you are teaching graphic design, have
students each submit a design to threadless
 
3. competition that doesn’t affect grades – have students compete on
fastest time to reach book, or best score on a test but don’t have it
affect grades.

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Lesson Plans

I read in “The First Days of School” about lesson plans. I have made
many lesson plans before as a volunteer for my church. You plan what
you want someone to learn, and then the activities you will do to get
them there.

 Then I thought about teachers that had used this in their teaching and
I realized the the most comfortable assignment I had finished recently
had a very detailed lesson plan.

 The assignment was to take apart and reassemble a computer. The trick
was we had to film it and cover certain computer parts and terms. The
lesson plan was a single sheet of paper that covered how to do the
activity. It was easy. Even when we didn’t know something, we could
get on the internet and find it out because we knew what we need to
know. I could just check off each item as my group or I covered it.
There was no guessing or sitting around being confused.

 So I realized in most everything we do or teach we should have a
lesson plan, which is really just a fancy term for deciding what we
want to happen, and making a plan to get there.

 Amazing how something so easy is so important.

 This is the link to our movie. Don’t judge, I didn’t have much time
to edit. 🙂

 [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYFsGhv2qZ0?wmode=transparent]

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