Teacher in the Classroom Larry Blackmer NAD Vice President A Funny Thing Happened on The Way to School This Morning The World Changed Three Questions to be Answered Who are you teaching ID: 759683
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The Role of the Secondary Teacher in the Classroom
Larry Blackmer,
NAD Vice President
Slide2A Funny Thing Happened on The Way to School This Morning……
……The World Changed!
Slide3Slide4Three Questions to be Answered:
Who are you teaching?What are the most important things you are going to teach?Is there a difference between teaching and learning?
Slide5Who are you teaching?
Are the students the same today as they were twenty years ago? Ten years ago? Five years ago?
How are they different?
Things most important
Internet world
Communication – IM, Text, Email, Social Networking
Parents – Helicopter, pressure not to do what is right but to measure up, expectations to go to Harvard from gr. 2
Attention span
Learning difficulties
R
elationships
Slide6If This Is Who You Are Teaching…Are You Teaching Differently?
No longer the sage on the stage, but the guide on the side
Can you teach from the front everything a student needs to know?
We are now at the point that knowledge is increasing faster than we can cope
Teach students how to learn and how to find the information
"what we learn today in school will be outdated by tomorrow, and therefore, the most successful people in the 'flat world' will be those who can adapt and learn quickly. -
Freidman
Slide710 Guiding Principles for Teachers Capable of Creating a Future
Curiosity, persistence, and genuine interest are the main power sources for the futureBreadth and depth are BOTH importantThere are more than two sides to most issuesTeachers help students connect the dots Future is not necessarily a straight-line projection of the present
Future-Focused Leadership
Slide810 Guiding Principles for Teachers Capable of Creating a Future -2
Peripheral vision can help us avoid being blind-sided
Bring out the best in others is
is
basic
Courage and personal responsibility need to overcome fear and self-pity
A belief in synergy can spark knowledge creation and breakthrough thinking
The role of strategic futurist is part of everybody’s job (eternal and present)
Slide9What are the Most Important Things You are Going To Teach?
Slide10What is Important?
First of all we need to be faithful Adventist educators- true to our call
Know for Whom we work- have an active personal relationship with Jesus
Share Jesus in word and action
Pray with students- not only before the test
Ask each student about her/his relationship with Jesus
If you can not do this…..find something else to do
Slide11Secondary Subject Expertise
What is important for students to know about your subject?
Creativity, finding how to get the answer more important than solving the exact question.
Know what the questions are more important than knowing what the answers are.
Thinking globally rather than locally
Build a fire in them
Teens are in the connected generation – use that don’t run from it.
Slide12Is Teaching Different from Learning?
Slide13What is Our Job vs, What is ourRole?
Curriculum Guides
Textbooks
Standardized tests
Lecture
Subject area isolation
Slide14What About?
Project-based instruction -
http://www.nwrel.org/request/2002aug/textonly.html
Cooperative learning
Web-directed instruction
Global instruction
Competency-based instruction
Cross-curricular instruction
Student-lead instruction
Slide15Flat World Curriculum
We live in a global society
Connections to other schools – even public schools
http://flatworlded.wikispaces.com/Projects
http://www.iearn.org/index.html
Loosen up and give students rope- help them to use tools, don’t tie their hands…and minds
Slide16Flat World – Freidman’s Untouchables
great corroborators,
the great
leveragers
,
the great synthesizers,
the passionate
personalizers
,
the great localizers,
the "green ones,"
the great explainers,
the great adapters
Slide17Resources
http://electronicportfolios.org/teachers/profdev.html
http://
www.intel.com/education/teach/index.htm?cid=cim:ggl|edu_us_teach|sD883|s
www.nadeducation.org