Here is some of the information I recently shared in my September newsletter. Each newsletter has a specific focus. This month is focused on pedagogy, adult learning and teaching information. If you would be interested in receiving my newsletters, please head over to my contact page and sign up.
STUDIES, ARTICLES, and RESOURCES
I receive a weekly update on anything published anywhere on the internet that includes information about teaching and learning. I try to glean the best of the information and provide a brief synopsis of the information. If you come across any information that you think would be good to share, please also feel free to pass that information along to: info@holistichealingarts.net
1.“One thing about student evaluations that troubles me is how they give students the impression that it’s the teacher who makes or breaks the course. A few instruments query students about their own efforts, but I’m not sure those kinds of questions make it clear that what happens in any course is the combined result of teacher and student actions.” What Happens in a Course is a Shared Responsibility
2. Educators who disconnect learning from learners and ideas from those who have them don’t realize just how easily disembodied knowledge floats away. If we want students to absorb the content we teach them, we must connect with each, individually, through using their names. To celebrate diversity, use students’ given names this semester
3. "...podcasts, she has found in the adult-learning program she teaches at a community college, can be a good springboard for her students. Many of them experience anxiety about learning and may be uncomfortable sharing details from their own lives in class. A podcast is another way to humanize the material and pique their interest. And that interest can often propel them through the rigorous material." What Podcasts Can Teach Us About Teaching
4. "Technology has its place. The trick is using it to enhance learning instead of doing the same thing in a different way. This article presents a balanced perspective on the advantages of using technology in the classroom. Each benefit provides actionable tips you can use to put on your technology A-game in your classroom.” 9 Amazing Benefits of Technology in the Classroom (+18 best ways to incorporate technology) by Jesse Miller
5. "Another Way to Say It, Another Way to See It.” The approach provides an opportunity for quieter students to express their thoughts and ideas with written contributions. I define quiet students as those who do not speak in class or who speak seldom and, when they do, they do so with great difficulty due to anxiety and/or lack of confidence. An Approach for Helping Quiet Students Find Their Voices
6. One of the challenges training and learning designers face is developing curriculum and strategies that are meant to advance the learners towards a higher level of expertise in skills learned. A journey of the learner, especially the novice to expert transition is a fascinating topic and training professionals love to create their own unconfirmed theories on such a topic. There are a number of theories which attempt to explain novice to expert transition and attempt to explain how learners move from novice to expert. 7 Models from Research Demystify Stages in Novice to Expert Transition
Here is some of the information I recently shared in my September newsletter. Each newsletter has a specific focus. This month is focused on pedagogy, adult learning and teaching information. If you would be interested in receiving my newsletters, please head over to my contact page and sign up.
Tidbits, Updates and Resources
1.An article by Maryellen Weimar, Ph.D., titled “What Happens in a Course is a Shared Responsibility” discusses concerns that student evaluations often give students the impression that it’s the teacher who makes or breaks the course. While the teacher has a responsibility to provide a constructive learning environment, the students must decide to contribute to the learning environment as well. The article provides suggestions for creating a valuable student evaluation that looks, not just at the teacher's role, but also the students.
2. The Alliance for Massage Therapy Education has made available, as a pdf, the Core Competencies for Massage Therapy Teachers.
3. Angela Lee Duckworth, a teacher turned psychologist, reveals what factor determines whether a student will succeed or fail in a youtube video TED talk: Why some students fail and other students succeed. The key: Grit.
4. NCBTMB announces a change in energy work acceptance, introduces new instructor qualifications. June 19, 2017. To understand the changes, you can access the full statement on the NCBTMB website.
STUDIES, ARTICLES, and RESOURCES
I receive a weekly update on anything published anywhere on the internet that includes information about teaching and learning. Much of it is personal blogs, stories about athletes that are injured, etc., but some of the information can be helpful to practitioners. I try to glean the best of the information and provide a brief synopsis of the information and a link to find the full item yourself. If you have any problems with the links, please let me know, or if you come across any information that you think would be good to share, please also feel free to pass that information along to: info@holistichealingarts.net
1.What is “Transfer of Learning” and “How does it help students?” Youtube video. Description: Schools tend to measure student learning with grades and report cards, but how can educators be sure what they teach will stick with students once they leave the classroom? In this video explainer, Larry Ferlazzo, from the Education Week Teacher blog Classroom Q&A With Larry Ferlazzo, shares five ways educators can facilitate Transfer of Learning to help students make connections across subject areas and in the world beyond the schoolhouse walls.
2. Kathy Paholsky, in her course “Assessing Skills & Abilities Through Oral & Practical Exams”, offered through the AMTA, addresses “How massage therapy instructors can better align student assessments with the knowledge, skills and abilities they’re expected to absorb in the classroom.” The course is available as a pdf to be downloaded and provides wonderful suggestions and resources.
3. Critical Thinking Learning Models: Analyzing and Assessing Thinking reviews why the analysis of thinking is important. According to the writers, all thinking is defined by the eight elements that make it up: whenever we think, we think for a purpose within a point of view based on assumptions leading to implications and consequences. We use concepts, ideas and theories to interpret data, facts, and experiences in order to answer questions, solve problems, and resolve issues. The eight components:
The article includes a number of online exercises and demonstrations to enhance understanding.
4. Educational Technology and Mobile Learning provides a handy chart featuring over 30 iPad apps for students with special needs. The chart was created in 2016, so some may no longer be accurate, but it is a helpful resource.
5. Trying to create presentations on an iPad? There is an app called Engage. You can see a brief introduction.
Here is some of the information I recently shared in my March newsletter. Each newsletter has a specific focus. This month is focused on pedagogy, adult learning and teaching information. If you would be interested in receiving my newsletters, please head over to my contact page and sign up.
Tidbits, Updates and Resources
1. Classtool.net offers a variety of games, puzzles, and tools to make classes fun, interesting and effective.
2. Criticalthinking.org offers an interactive model detailing the analysis and assessment of reasoning. Why is the analysis of thinking important? “Everyone thinks; it is our nature to do so. But much of thinking, left to itself, is biased, distorted, partial, uninformed or downright prejudiced. Yet the quality of our life and of what we produce, make or build, depends precisely on the quality of our thought. Shoddy thinking is costly, both in money and in quality of life. If you want to think well, you must understand at least the rudiments of thought, the most basic structure out of which all thinking made. You must learn how to take thinking apart.” Thinking is defined by the eight elements that make it up:
The post includes a helpful graphic on the elements of thought and how to use them.
3. An article, published at Er.educause.edu, titled Pedagogy, Technology, and the example of Open Education resources by Robin DeRosa and Scott Robison, reminds us that technology is not the focus of the curricula, but, instead, we should start with a vision and then identify the technologies that help achieve that vision. The value is not in the tool, but in how the tool is used. “When no meaningful relationship exists between the technology and pedagogy, the tool itself loses value.”
4. “Three tools for teaching critical thinking and problem-solving skills” by Katrina Schwatz discusses the idea of integrative thinking—a term to describe looking for solutions through the tensions inherent in different viewpoints. One of the tools is called the Ladder of Inference, a model developed by professors Chrisy Argyris and Donald Schön of Harvard. A second tool is called the Pro/Pro chart and the third tool is Provoking Self Reflection.
STUDIES, ARTICLES, and RESOURCES
I receive a weekly update on anything published anywhere on the internet that includes information about teaching and learning. Much of it is personal blogs, stories about athletes that are injured, etc., but some of the information can be helpful to practitioners. I try to glean the best of the information and provide a brief synopsis of the information and a link to find the full item yourself. If you have any problems with the links, please let me know, or if you come across any information that you think would be good to share, please also feel free to pass that information along to: info@holistichealingarts.net
1. The Creativity Post published an article by Noa Kageyama, titled 19 Things That Great Music Teachers Do. While the article references a study done by Robert Duke and Amy Simmons with artistic teachers, the information is applicable to anyone teaching. After observing 3 different teachers of three different instruments, and comparing their techniques and successes, the researchers identified 19 key elements that were common to each teacher. The elements fall into three broad areas: Goals and expectations, Effecting Change, and Conveying information.
2. The article “Everyone, or Nearly Everyone, Has the Wrong Idea About Vocational Education” by Ken Gordon, points out that “some see vocational education as something apart from their idea of education. Why? Ted Dinersmith and Tony Wagner, in their book Most Likely to Succeed, point to a reason: Vocational education, in the eyes of many middle- and upper-class parents, is one step removed from juvenile delinquency.” The article looks at the impact of this attitude and what vocational education can be.
3. Time Higher Education published, in Dec 2015, key predictions from the Open University and SRI International report. Titled Innovating Pedagogy 2015: the 10 technological trends set to transform education, the trends in approximate order of immediacy to implementation are:
4. TED-Ed Innovating Educators and TED-Ed community rated teaching support apps and recommended the following 25 apps.
5. A technology tools that can help teachers and students: Wipebook—Reusable whiteboard notebook. What happens when you cross a dry erase board with a notebook? You get an endlessly reusable notebook—one you can fill over and over with sketches, diagrams, notes, lists, or your day’s to-do’s. The forgiving, hypergloss film pages encourage unlimited drafts but limit smudging. Each Wipebook comes with a smudge-proof pen so your thoughts and projects stay intact—until you decide to re-use a page. Starting price: $39.95 at Grommet
6. First published in 1989 and updated in 2016, What Teachers Should Know and Be Able to Do articulated the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards’ Five Core Propositions for teaching:
Teachers are committed to Students and Their LearningThe updated version is available as an ebook from Kindle for $4.99
Here is some of the information I recently shared in my September newsletter. Each newsletter has a specific focus. This month is focused on pedagogy, adult learning and teaching information. If you would be interested in receiving my newsletters, please head over to my contact page and sign up.
Tidbits, Updates and Resources
1.David Goobler, columnist at Chronicle Vitae, shares some reasons why rubrics are good and why they may not work. A good rubric:
Why they may not work:
Potential Solution:
2. An interesting proposal was written and published by Rick Rosen, titled Continuing Education in the Massage Therapy Field: Proposal for an alternative to state and national regulation in 2013, attempts to address the issue of the regulation of coining education in massage therapy and the challenge of inconsistencies and oversight.
3. Simon Oxenham posted a link to the video by Daniel Willingham “Believe it or not, ‘learning styles’ don’t exist” on Big Think.
4. Todd Whitaker published a list, “What Great Teachers Do differently: 14 Things That Matter Most” in Nov 2014. Below is the list:
5. On the blog, Inside Higher Ed, John Warner shared his response (The Most Important Work of Pedagogy I’ve Read in Ten Years) about a book for teachers, For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood…and the Rest of Y’all Too by Christopher Edin. While Warner is white, does not teach in the hood and actually teaches at the college level, he found wonderful insight into ways of making his classes more interactive and relevant. If you are looking for suggestions, this book can help.
6. A research article, Demystifying the rubric: a five-step pedagogy to improve student understanding and utilization of marking criteria, by Lorraine Jones and published in Higher Education Research & Development, “investigates an intervention designed to encourage effective utilization of rubrics.”
7. Free webinars on educational topics are offered quarterly through Sohnen-Moe Associates in conjunction with The Benjamin Institute. The November session, Research - Evidence- Informed Practice in the Classroom, with Merrilyn Cambron will be offered Nov 16th at 2 pm eastern. These webinars are 1.5 hours and include a question and answer period. If you are interested in participating, you can register now.
8. Teachthought published an explanation of Competency-based learning and included a helpful infographic from Rasmussen College.
9. In the research study, Teaching critical thinking, by N.G. Holmes, and published on Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, July2015, the goal stated is :”we demonstrate a structure for providing suitable practice that can be applied in any instructional setting that involves the acquisition of data and relating that data to scientific models.”
10. Roger Greenaway provides a monthly free newsletter with facilitation tips: Active Review Tips. “Re-charge your facilitation skills with practical tips and tools for active and effective debriefing” You can subscribe on his website.
11. A great free resource, The Science of Learning, can be downloaded at Deans for Impact website. It is a good resource for new teachers as well as established teachers looking to be more effective.
12. Paul Bruno summarizes learning basics in his article How People Learn: An Evidence-Based Approach. This includes 6 scientific principles he feels it is important for every teacher to know. The principles are summarized below. For more explanation, you can read the full article at Edutopia.
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