Joseph Kyser CEIT amp STH Introductions Name SchoolDepartment Preferred Name 5 second Pause Structure My Hope Set of questions Reflect for 2 minutes Discuss as a full group Scholarship ID: 602948
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The Heart of Teaching: Finding Your Place as a Teacher
Joseph Kyser, CEIT & STHSlide2
Introductions
Name, School/Department, Preferred Name
5 second PauseSlide3
Structure
My Hope
Set of questions
Reflect for 2 minutes
Discuss as a full group
Scholarship Slide4
What does it mean for you to teach at Boston University? What are you trying to achieve with your teaching? What is your aim, goal, or purpose?What experiences, emotions, or reactions do you
want to
have in connection to your teaching
?
Getting Started:
Your Identity as TeacherSlide5
What experience do you want your students to have in your classroom?How do you actively engage your students throughout a
class session?
What expectations do you have for your students? What constitutes
an “ideal student”
in your class?
Begin to Dig:
Focusing on the StudentSlide6
How is community intentionally built in your classroom? Unintentionally?How are
you
learning in community within your
discipline?
How does that learning influence your classroom?
How does community foster deep connections between you and your students, your students and your discipline, and your discipline and you?
Digging Deeper:
Building CommunitySlide7
What does “educating the whole student
”
mean to you?
What does “teaching from your
whole self
” mean to you?
How are elements of these principles evident in your classroom today?
Digging Further:
Tapping into WholenessSlide8
How does transformation
occur
in your
classroom?
How
does your
classroom
promote liberation
for you and your students?
How does your classroom encourage the integration of content knowledge and the ”human experience”?
Finding the Heart of Your TeachingSlide9
Parker PalmerThe academy is disconnectedAs teachers we often hide behind our fearsCommunity helps resolve many of these issues
Community in the classroom
Community between colleagues
Community within a subject-centered education
From:
The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher’s Life
ScholarshipSlide10
Rachael KesslerTo teach at our best selves requires us to know our deepest selvesWe do this through:
Finding times of silence and stillness (rest)
Defining our meaning and purpose
Finding joy in what we do
Using creativity to feel inspired
Accepting the unknowns of the universe
From:
The Soul of Education: Helping Students Find Connection, Compassion, and Character at School
ScholarshipSlide11
Paulo Freire Education can be used to oppress or liberate individualsChallenges the traditional viewpoint of teacher-student relationship in light of power differences
Calls for an education based on
dialogics
Dialo
gue is essential as we explore content, human-world relationship, and generative themes
From:
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
ScholarshipSlide12
bell hooksThe classroom should be a place of freedom and empowermentPulls from feminist theory of liberation
Promotes a multi-cultural approach to the classroom
“Any classroom that employs a holistic model of learning will also be a place where teachers grow,
and are empowered by the process. That
empowerment cannot happen if we refuse to be vulnerable while encouraging students to take risks.”
From:
Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
ScholarshipSlide13
Tobin Hart In this information age, knowledge has a transforming power that must be utilized more in the classroomThe classroom must address the different ways of knowing and learning (multiple learning styles) if students are to be transformed
Believes transformation calls us to a deeper knowing in the heart where “paradox and possibility open up. Old divisions of either/or move even beyond multiplicity to seeing with a singular depth, to the unifying heart of things; the loving heart is the bridge between worlds.”
From:
Information to Transformation: Education for the Evolution of Consciousness
ScholarshipSlide14
Questions?Slide15
The Heart of Teaching: Finding Your Place as a Teacher
Joseph Kyser, CEIT & STH