Instructional advice for new teachers
As a campus principal or assistant principal, compose several sentences of ADVICE for a new teacher on your campus which relates to your expectations for their teaching. (Do this with a partner.) How do you want to see them teach and lead students, that may be different from a "traditional" lecture-based or primarily teacher-directed instructional model? How will technology fit into this recipe?
posted by Wesley Fryer at 10:28 AM
10 Comments:
Don't take the easy way out,try new things technologically. Be innovative, accessible, and listen to your students needs. Find out how your students learn: Let them express how they want to receive and communicate their learning. Be willing to be different and just do it.
10:37 AM
Be a facilitator and teacher. Listen to them, give them choices to demonstrate their knowledge through their own expression, allow them to interact with you(teacher) and each other.....80/20 Philosophy. The students determine what technology will be used. For example, they may produce a movie or write a paper. Use rubrics for assessment.
10:37 AM
We want all of the teachers to learn how to use the programs on the desktop so they are comfortable using them in their lessons. Teachers need to ask themselves what is it that they really want the students to learn? Is there a way that they can use technology to better enhance their lesson or the assignment. We need to realize that the adults do not have to know everything about the technology, the kids can teach us- this will show that they really understand the topic of insturction in their own creative style.
10:38 AM
We must know our kids and build relationships. Kids don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.
10:39 AM
Use your ability to model learning with students by seeking technology training on your own and with students. Bring technology to cooperative learning groups (blogs) and think outside the box (allow some homework to be done online). Use f2f (face to face conversations) with your students to provide effective learning in your classroom. Encourage students to bring ideas about how technology can be used in lessons. Consider having one day a month of using technology resources instead of paper and pencil to promote learning.
10:39 AM
we LOVE the no paper day idea!
10:41 AM
How long did it take you to become really familiar with the material? What were some of the things that helped you truly "learn" the material? Did you find yourself more focused and awake with methodlologies other than "lecture?" Spend some time exploring the technology on the campus before you complete your lesson plan for the unit. Implement technology in meaningful ways that will engage the student in the learning process. Offer students opportunities to share with others what they have learned.
Be willing to accept non-traditional forms of assessment. Be willing to learn with your students and sometimes learn from your students. This process will excite them and nurture a love for learning.
10:43 AM
Advice:
1. Differientiate Instruction so that all learning style can participate and learn
2. Set up classroom for interactive work and discussions. Role are not all the time the answer or expection.
3. Technology: Student sharing and modeling for other students the use of technology with projects and daily use. Learning activities that uses technology/software to create authentic application for endure knowledge on a HOTS Level.
4. WE need to provide teacher training and time for the educator to learn, practice and master new teaching opportunities for their students
5. WE will foster an environment of "Educational Risk Taking" moving away from the "traditional factory model".
10:47 AM
Anonymous said...
Personalize your professional relationships with students.
Not only "know" the learning conditions they want/need but commit to provide for their wants/needs. Commit to interactive collaboration among students and the world outside the school.
10:44 AM
10:54 AM
First and foremost, you must KNOW your students individually. Build on your students strengths and passions. Be an active listener and facilitator of learning that engages and motivates students to take risks, set goals, and take ownership in their own learning using all the resources that are available. Always be a learner yourself, experiment with non-traditional ways of teaching, and be creative!
11:01 AM
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