Our goal today was to facilitate engagement with the ideas presented in the first 2 lectures.  One long-term aim of these lecture presentations is to  help you make sense of the information in the lecutres, Engaging Minds text, and TED Talks so you are fully prepared to write your critical analysis paper.  Here’s what Shep and I presented today:

Your Favourite Teacher

We asked you to visualize your favourite teacher and, as you did so, to consider one or both of these questions:

• What qualities did this teacher have that made him or her stand out?
• For what reasons is this teacher your favourite?

Lecture 1 – Knowing is Being Concept Map

Great teachers are generally high complexity people who have transformed their person and practice through lifelong learning.  To further explore what makes an effective teacher, we completed a concept map using the following words:

• Teaching
• High complexity
• Transformation
• Lifelong learning

Lecture 2 – Knowing Is Historied Projection Onto the Present Fishbone

For this lecture we created small groups or partnerships and give you one of these topics to work with:

• Historied
• Projection
• Onto the Present.

Then we asked you to develop a fishbone of the key ideas and details on that topic.   Groups reported out their findings to the whole class.

Try this link to www.worksheetworks.com for information on how to work with a Fishbone diagram and the tools to customize a graphic organizer to meet your needs.  A very cool site indeed!

Please stay tuned for…

Lecture 3 – Knowing is a Lousy Nicolas Cage Movie

Here’s a preview:

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwQmPc8Uxi0[/youtube]

How Would You Describe Teaching

We wrapped with an activity that Brent opens his lecture with – choosing and explaining a synonym for teaching.  We asked you to:

• Consider these 100 synonyms for teaching
• Choose one that resonates for you
• Briefly explain your choice.

Here are the synonyms:

We originally planned this closure piece to be a 5-minute write but, due to time constraints, we ended up getting your ideas a a verbal “ticket out the door”.

Lecture Presentation Follow-Up

Shep and I recommend that you follow up our presentation by reading Chapter 1 and 2 of Enagaging Minds and viewing the related TED Talks.  The TED Talks are linked here for easy reference:

Wade Davis, The worldwide web of belief and ritual

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8zWH3T5RCA&feature=PlayList&p=8CDC74A851B01408&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=29[/youtube]

Ron Eglash, African fractals, in buildings and braids

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7n36qV4Lk94&feature=PlayList&p=372BB8A78FFE22A6&index=0[/youtube]

Administrivia

• ISS
  • Please have your ISS completed for Wednesday, 27 January.

• Timetable  for Monday Lecture Presentations
  • We will spend from 10:30 – 11:30 watching and participating in Lecture Presentations.  Shep and I will be available for consultation before and after class in Scarfe 1310.

• EDUC 310 Course Outline
  • We handed out a hard copy of the EDUC 310 course outline.  It includes information on both components of the course – inquiry and lecture – in addition a class calendar.  The lecture component outline has links that will allow you to easily access the TED Talks.
  • Check the EDUC 310 post from 18 January for electronic copies of these outlines.

• Career Fair and Teacher Resumes
  • The Career Fair is Friday at SUB (as per a previous post).  Shep found a few teacher resume samples and here they are:
  • Teacher Resume Samples

– Lawrence