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As teachers we all have an enormous responsibility......every single day; we take on the important task of nurturing the impressionable minds of future generations. But what does it take to be an outstanding teacher?What does "peak performance" look like for an educator? In particular, what skills, attitudes and beliefs are helpful to us if we want to be the best teachers we can be?When you look at what great teachers do, there is always a common thread....a collection of core qualities that they all seem to possess, so how do we learn to deliberately cultivate these?
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What does it take to be a champion sportsperson?
What does it take to be a champion educator?
Don’t smile till Easter
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Passion
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Purpose
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Perspective
A Pirate Attitude
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“Professor John Hattie has spent his life studying the studies to find out what
works in education. His advice to teachers?”
Just shut up.
http://www.smh.com.au/national/education/just-shut-up-and-listen-expert-tells-teachers-20110609-1fv9y.html
Professor John Hattie
“When teachers stop talking deep learning takes place”
“We need to see learning through the eyes of kids”
http://www.infed.org/thinkers/et-rogers.htm
Realness or genuineness
Prizing, Acceptance, Trust
Empathic Understanding
What are the qualities and attitudes that facilitate learning?
Carl Ransom Rogers (1902 - 1987)
“We cannot teach another person directly; we can only facilitate their learning.”
http://www.infed.org/thinkers/et-rogers.htm
“The structure and organization of the self appears to become more rigid under threat”
The educational situation which most effectively promotes significant
learning is one in which:
1) threat to the self of the learner is reduced a minimum
2) differentiated perception of the field of experience is facilitated.
http://www.infed.org/thinkers/et-rogers.htm
in other words
Students don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care
“If you want to teach young people, first you
must love them; you must love them all equally.
Saint Marcellin Champagnat
Founder of the Marist Brothers
“A word of advice, Durk: It’s the Mesolithic, We’ve domesticated the dog, we’re using stone tools, and no one’s naked anymore.”
1998 2011
In early 1998 could you have predicted how much the world would change in 13 years?
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20242011Kindergarten Year 12?
How do we prepare for a
future that we can’t possibly even
imagine?
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Seymour Papert
We need to produce people who know how to act when they’re faced with
situations for which they were not specifically prepared.
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WTF?
24/7 accessp2p learning
online learningmobile learning home schoolingcloud computing
open learning spacesopen learning resources
co-constructed knowledgeabundant informationgame based learningdigital convergence
We have entered an era where self-motivated students with a personal device and broadband
access can learn more than they could in school.
What do you need to know to teach a dog tricks?
More than the dog
“Don’t worry that your children don’t listen to you.Worry that they are watching everything you do.”
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Do you know how to...
create a network for learning?
manage information overload?
work collaboratively?
build content?
make information work for you?
use information legally and ethically?
How are YOU with these things?
Your students have many strengths
quick learnersenjoy challengesseek engagement
no fearwilling to trywilling to fail
BUT
Students Teachersquick learner
enjoys a challengeseeks engagement
no fearwilling to trywilling to fail
enjoys learningworldliness
wisdomknows what’s possible
Students Teachersquick learner
enjoys a challengeseeks engagement
no fearwilling to trywilling to fail
enjoys learningworldliness
wisdomknows what’s possible
Students Teachersquick learner
enjoys a challengeseeks engagement
no fearwilling to trywilling to fail
enjoys learningworldliness
wisdomknows what’s possible
Students Teachersquick learner
enjoys a challengeseeks engagement
no fearwilling to trywilling to fail
enjoys learningworldliness
wisdomknows what’s possible
Students Teachersquick learner
enjoys a challengeseeks engagement
no fearwilling to trywilling to fail
enjoys learningworldliness
wisdomknows what’s possible
What do you think sets an excellent teacher apart from an average one?
What do great teachers do that makes them great?
What do you think sets an excellent teacher apart from an average one?
What do great teachers do that makes them great?
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In your teaching career, have you ever done something with your students that...
was out of the ordinary?you feel exceptionally proud of?you think was exemplary education?you know made a difference?
Did you have to bend a few rules to do it?
Great people who did not wait for permission
Great people who did wait for permission
Make it look like you’re following instructions
while saying “screw it”
"It's fun"
"I learned most of it from the teacher, but then... I started doing stuff for myself"
"I found my way and worked it out by myself, and tried to solve my own problems"
“It makes you think a lot about the problem solving"
"It helps you create your inner awesomeness!"
Perhaps we could endeavour to teach our future the following:
• How to focus intently on a problem until it's solved.
• The benefit of postponing short-term satisfaction in exchange for long-term success.
• How to read critically.
• The power of being able to lead groups of peers without receiving clear delegated authority.
• An understanding of the extraordinary power of the scientific method, in just about any situation or endeavour.
• How to persuasively present ideas in multiple forms, especially in writing and before a group.
• Project management. Self-management and the management of ideas, projects and people.
• Personal finance. Understanding the truth about money and debt and leverage.
• An insatiable desire (and the ability) to learn more. Forever.
• Most of all, the self-reliance that comes from understanding that relentless hard work can be applied to solve problems worth solving.
Seth Godin
