Monday, May 19, 2008

Session 1, Day 1: Framing Conversations

Here are the notes from the whiteboard for the question

What challenges do you face/have you faced in the classroom? Things to work on?

motivating and engaging students
overplanning/underplanning: the need for flexibility, but not too much
successfully managing multi-level classes --> balancing info/level info to meet student needs
keeping student attention (and keep them from running off track!)
"unteaching" students - redirect/corect the knowledge they came into class with
getting students to talk/answer questions
balance in information-giving: how detailed do you get?
finding new ways to teach things
keep class from being too teacher-centered
setting goals and acomplishing them
structuring course information/content appropriately
planning/maximizing class time
knowing how YOUR course fits into a larger sequence of courses
integrating activities/assessments coherently
keeping your OWN attention
how to make it interesting/relevant
student knowledge retention

1 comment:

Patience Graybill said...

I can do this without my own Blogger account?