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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.