Some ideas on Facilitating Student Learning
- 1. Some ideas on Teaching Facilitating Student Learning W. Lockhart University of Regina
- 2. Who are my students? Such a varied mix: Age, academic preparedness, cultural backgrounds, language skills, course expectations …
- 3. A diverse mix of students!!! Bridging the Gaps: How to do it?
- 4. Is my student a customer – to be served? Is my job to feed them knowledge? Is my student responsible to learn it? What is the contract? Can students be trusted?
- 5. Some of my old ideas and methods are dead. Yet I still lean on them. I have to let go!
- 6. Active Learning is ok for some classes But not in my course … it won’t work here!
- 7. About 1/3 of my students just don’t understand. They tell me so all the time! So what are: Fixed vs Open concepts?
- 8. Covering all of the material, vs Uncovering the important stuff (OR: The tyranny of content)
- 9. So if I go down this path, what are the risks? Potential rewards? … for me, and for my students?
- 10. Don’t have a cow, man! Just teach the materials like we always have.
- 11. Tenure and promotion are about research and publication, not teaching.
- 12. But they are so proud when they achieve their goals!
- 13. Thank you for listening. Let’s talk about it! Wallace Lockhart Wallace.lockhart@uregina.ca
- 14. Gems from PEI – I.S. I’ll Try • Day one: fun, active, relatedness, philosophy, learning styles, mutual expectations/ contract • Interteaching – try in 3 classes (285) – Wikis (Jigsaw): one per group; on exam • PPT: Post with some “skeleton” slides • URCourses pre-class quiz: one per week. • Student feedback: cue-cards, muddy points • Teaching Journal: An orange file folder with a writing pad in each class file.