Dave and I spoke quickly so we could wedge all this goodness into today’s class. Here’s the recap:
Administrivia
Class Calendar: We’ve rolled Wednesday’s one hour of class time into Monday’s session on October 17th and 24th. That means you get Wednesday off (giddyup!) and that the schedule for those Mondays will be as follows:
- 10:00 am – 12:00 pm = Class in Room 204
- 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm = Lunch
- 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm = Class in Room 204
Lesson Design Jigsaw & the Yeti of the Classroom
As per the images above, we played with Jigsaw as a means to process the important content around the Lesson Design. We moved from expert groups to base groups and, in the end, grew your knowledge about each of the seven components of LD. We wrapped by revisiting the Anticipation Guide I presented as an intro to the topic.
Did you see what I did there boys and girls? Closure. Honest to goodness. The only thing more rare is one of these:
You’ll get a chance to work with these components as you prepare and implement your Microteaching lesson in POT/COM class. Speaking of which…
Intro to Principles of Teaching (POT)
After spending half an hour or so watching Cheech and Chong clips on YouTube, we got down to the real business of POT at UBC. Here’s the course overview PPT that I presented in class:
Then, Dave showed the EDUC 310 Vista site and asked you to do the following:
1. Read the Paulo Freire piece in the EDUC 310 Reading Package – “Teachers as cultural workers: Letters to those who dare to teach”
2. Visit the EDUC 310 Vista site in the Entrance Slip: Conceptions of Teaching area in the Discussion tab. Here’s an image to help you find the proper place to post:
3. Respond to the piece in writing in any way that suits you. You may create an original piece of writing – the discussion questions drafted by the course overseer, Anne Phelan, and posted below might help – or you may choose to react to someone else’s response and post that reaction.
The due date for your Freire-themed piece is Friday, 14 October 2011.
Hierarchy of Beliefs
Seeing as we’re asking you to consider Freire’s conception of teaching, we thought we’d give you time to consider what you think is important in education. To that end, we asked you to complete a “hierarchy of beliefs”, a task that involved organizing a variety of teaching and learning-related statements. We ran out of time to process your efforts so we will revisit this task next class.
Sayonara,
– Lawrence