Sunday, January 21, 2007

General Weekly structure of my senior lessons

As part of my radical new teaching style, I want to set up what I will call learning environments (as opposed to classrooms).
I will emphasize that I am here to learn from them how to be a better teacher, but they will also learn from me and from each other (and from others beyond the classroom).
During the week I will need to cover:
  • What needs to be looked at this week. This could be done with mind maps. We could also look at the parameters of each concept.
  • What resources can we use to try and understand the concepts.
  • What might stop us from understanding them. What do we need to do to overcome these problems.
  • What skills do we need to develop to help with the assessment tasks. Where will be the problems.
  • What learning style will we try and use this week. What are three signs that this style is effective.
At some stage early in the term I need to cover:
  • What content we will cover
  • What assessment items we need to produce
  • What issues there might be between them (as students) and me (as a teacher)
  • What the deadlines policy means to me
  • Ethics - critical to be covered before ANY exercises can be done in class.
  • My ideas for Web 2.0 and how we might use it.

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