Important ideas for teachers 2014

Important Ideas for Pre-

service Teachers!

1. You are not like them (or me)

* not better or worse - just

different

"I am not teaching me, I am

teaching them" (Heather

Montague, 2010)

2. Supervise yourself! or Take

control of your supervision!Some ideas to tryhttps://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AW_ST60LiRO1ZGRnNjc5c2JfNDgwZHNrODg3ZGo&hl=en 

3. Make use of all your class

time - have students talk outside

the room and enter the room

ready to start - reading

material, math problem on the

board, a news item to think

about, a science oddity to

ponder and explain, a poem to

memorize ...

4. Never stop learning – subject,

student’s cultures, whatever.

5. Try to make contact with

everyone every class.

6. The only real crisis in your

classroom is the one you create.

7. Communication is mainly

nonverbal.

It's way more than text!

- eyes, arms, motion, timing,

smell, stance, etc

8. Just because someone is quiet

does not mean s/he is not

interested or not listening (but it

might).

Technology can help give them a

place to express themselves!

8. Technology does not solve

problems --- people solve

problems.●Technology should be about helping

individuals, groups and society.

 9. Multimedia is the 'black

hole' of time

●minor adjustments will take inordinate

amounts of time

●this is why you want students creating

the multimedia stuff - you don't have

time1

10. Any activity has to make it

better for learning

●or not hurt learning while making it

easier for the teacher.

11. Technology is not neutral

●it is Western, white, male, military,

democratic, consumer centric and

emotionless ...

12. Once the mark is given, the

learning stops.

13. Don't complain about the

marking - you assigned it! Make

it interesting.

You do not have to mark

everything.

14. Know when to throw out the

rubric

An A that doesn’t represent

personal struggle and growth is

a lie. Carol Ann Tomlinson - Educational Leadership (69, 3) Nov. 2011 p. 86

15. Perception is reality.

 ●Yours, students, parents, admin,

etc.

16. Use your style – no one else’s

But don't let that limit your

students! See rule # 1.

17. Discipline - make students

choose ●They will usually choose well, but may need reminders to

help them stay on course/

18. Is it worth your time? Make

it re-usable.

19. Promote higher order skills /

problem solving

20. You don’t need to know the

details of a program to have

students use it. ●You do need to know enough to assess the product.

21. Where you sit in the staff

room matters!

22. Find the best uses of

technology in your subject area.

23. How much time should be spent

teaching how to use technology?

●How much time do we spend teaching students to speak,

read and write? These are also technology based.

24. Break the rules when

necessary

25. When is a movie (podcast,

animation, glog,...) like an

essay?

“Show mine!”

Want to see my bloopers?”

27. All educational theories

apply to some students. None of

them apply to all students (or

even most students).

They apply mainly to people like

you - and you are not like them.