Teaching Creatively

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Teaching Creatively

• Alison Morrison-Shetlar
• Director,
• Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning
• University of Central Florida
• aims_at_mail.ucf.edu

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Introduction

• Learning modalities and styles
• allows creation of lessons that are richer and
  more meaningful to the student.
• Creating interactive lessons to
• enhance teaching enjoyment
• student success

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Presentation objectives

• Demonstrate strategies that work in the lecture
  and lab
• How to modify the strategies and create new ones
  that fit your situation and teaching personality
• Show evidence from research that these strategies
  work

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How we remember

• Reading 10
• Hearing 20
• Sight 30
• Sight and hearing 50
• Talking 70
• Doing 90

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Learning styles

• Find out your learning style
• Learning style profile of a typical class.

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Modalities

• Auditory.listening and talking
• Visual.seeing, observing
• Kinesthetic doing physically involved
• Tactile touching real objects

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One minute paper

• If you want to incorporate technology into your
  course how would you go about it or help others
  go about it?
• Easy to assign and assess
• creates an opportunity to be considered as a
  person and establish a relationship

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One minute paper rationale

• Students learn more and remember longer if they
  believe that their attitudes, values, and beliefs
  are important.
• Students contribute more and make better sense of
  what they learn if they must reflect personally.

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Drawing for understanding

• Students are asked to create a drawing, diagram
  or chart to help explain an idea, relationship,
  or process
• Students must then share their drawing and
  discuss it with a classmate

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The power of the picture

• Show a picture
• a picture speaks a thousand words
• initiates discussion
• image stays in the students memory and creates a
  link to the information discussed and stored

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Creating and using groups

• Create a clear purpose and focus for groups
• Use an efficient process for forming groups
• Make every student in a group accountable
• Improves
• communications
• relationships among students of different groups
• content mastery and on-task behavior
• academic achievement

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How to gauge understanding

• Choral response
• increases student participant
• Pass the chalk
• increases responsibility
• everyone gets involved

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Assessment in class

• 3 x 5 cards
• ask questions
• quick feedback
• anonymous
• catches problem early

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MERLOT.ORG

• www.merlot.org
• Wide range of media available for all disciplines

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Real life benefits

• Better student work
• Better student attendance
• Higher student peer evaluations
• Greater enjoyment of teaching
• Renewed energy and enthusiasm
• Contribute positively to institutional culture