Week+5+-+Models+of+Teaching+and+Learning

=__Week 5 Lecture – Models of Teaching and Learning__= Posted by Ambia Scott

In the first lecture of this subject, I really enjoyed watching the inspiring YouTube video of a talk given by Sir Ken Robinson. I was really inspired by his way of thinking, and his crusade to change the very foundations of education systems worldwide to incorporate and embrace creativity. Having played music my whole life, and reaped the many benefits of being able to be creative, and express via musical instruments, I welcomed the video in the lecture, where Sir Ken Robinson discussed the importance of music. He said that music plays an important role in education, and he wants to make every child’s music matter. · [|www.sirkenrobinson.com] ( great website)

In this week's lecture, Greg showed us another YouTube Video called “Do you teach or do you educate?”

In the lecture, we were asked if we ‘teach’ or ‘educate’.

According to the YouTube video, If you **EDUCATE**, these are things you will do and explore: · Illuminate · Enlighten · Educate · Inspire · Mentor · Advise · Guide · Show the way · Intelligence plus character

Automatically, I wanted to ‘educate’. Through educating, I find that you open up a whole new world of opportunity for students to learn. They become active participants and leaders in learning, and are no doubt more likely to be engaged.

In a previous workshop in Issues in Education, Hazal and I discussed that we believe it is important for teachers to inspire students.

We believe that if students are inspired, then they are more enthusiastic about learning, more engaged, and are motivated to learn independently about a topic- just because they are interested and curious (not because they //have// to do research or homework, but just because they are enjoying learning).

I believe that as the years go by, schools will be filled with more teachers that are focused on being ‘educators’ rather than ‘teachers’.

1. Teaching as Content Mastery 2. Teaching as a performance aimed at making learning happen 3. Teaching as facilitation of learning 4. Relationship building a vehicle for learning The lecture and readings really got me questioning as to what my belief system is. Watching the funny YouTube video about maths stood out for me. Greg and Pete, and all of the guest lecturers who present lectures to us, always seem to add in media and video clips to their presentations at just the right time. The clips help to communicate their messages, but also keep the class engaged and focused. I think it is important when we are teaching, to change it up a bit, and include different ways to communicate lessons and ideas – it keeps the class on the ball and interested!
 * BELIEF SYSTEMS OF TEACHING AND LEARNING:**

· Teacher-delivered “direct” instruction · “Social” Models, student-teacher negotiated, shared · Bottom-up models, student-centred ‘radical’
 * MODELS CAN BE:**

· Metacognition · Learning Theorists · The Academic Disciplines · Developmental Studies of the Human Intellect
 * MODELS OF TEACHING ARE BASED ON:**

T**HE 5 Es OF TEACHING:** · Engage · Explore · Explain · Elaborate, and · Evaluate

· Montessori · Reggio Emilia · Steiner · Lane Clark · Malaguzzi · Howard Gardner
 * ALTERNATIVE EDUCATIONAL SETTINGS:**

‘21st Century Pedagogy’ And ‘Three steps for 21st Century Learning’
 * Good YouTube videoclips to watch include:**

Three Steps for 21st Century Learning talked about how the concepts of: Competition, Cooperation, and Collaboration can be utilized to help students learn more effectively, and be able to contribute more to the world. I liked the idea of classroom learning to be quite international in terms of sharing online teaching with other schools from around the globe. I find this concept to be effective, not only in learning within schools, but I think it might help to learn about other countries and cultures, and help to break down the barriers between different races. It would be great actually, if schools taught a subject one lesson a week just focused on compassion, empathy, tolerance and acceptance. Imagine how much better this world would be, with less discrimination and greater compassion for others.

Back to the point, The concept was interesting, how students are encouraged to cooperate and collaborate, in order to gain more skills and knowledge. Because of that greater understanding, they are then able to compete later in life with others from different countries e.g. in international business, exporting, etc and understand themselves, the world and their part in the world. Oohh!! That sounds a bit in ‘Context’!! (My English presentation today was on the values of context in teaching English, and the concept of Understanding self, the world, and then self in the world, has just been rehashed!)

In the workshop, I thought the use of the Socratic circle was effective. It forced people to discuss their opinions with one person, and then share it with others in a one- on-one situation. I have a phobia of writing down my opinions in written discussions like this, however, discussing the same ideas in person with someone, I don’t find so intimidating. I look forward to using the Socratic circle in classes when I teach. I think it can be a good way to express views with other students in the class with whom they might not normally speak one-on-one on a daily basis.

I definitely related to the ideas about how a classroom should be – useful, beautiful and creative. At home, I try to keep my room a studio of creativity. It only houses things that are either practical or beautiful. Every time I walk into it, I am inspired to do something creative, and it is colourful and happy.

After having read this week's readings, the models of teaching and learning that really stood out for me were Edward De Bono's Thinking Hats, and Blooms Revised Taxonomy. Creating Evaluating Analysing Applying Understanding Remembering
 * Bloom's Revised Taxonomy consisted of:**

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 * Edward De Bono's Thinking Hats:**

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Both of these models of teaching stood out to me, because they followed the 5 Es of teaching. I believe that it is important to encourage students to become independent learners and look at things from different viewpoints. Children gain more when they can think deeply about a subject, and using both of these methods allows them to gain a greater insight into their work and subjects


 * Reference Websites: **

Sir Ken Robinson [|www.sirkenrobinson.com]

Edward De Bono Thinking Hats []

Bloom's Revised Taxonomy []