Planning Instruction

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Planning Instruction

• The Teaching Process

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Roles of a Teacher

• Instructional Expert
• Plans, guides, and evaluates learning
• Decisions
• What to teach
• Materials to use
• Best methods
• How to evaluate

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Roles of a Teacher

• Factors influencing decisions
• State Curriculum Guides
• Your knowledge of
• Subject content
• Learning theory and motivation
• Students abilities and needs
• Your overall teaching goals

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Roles of a Teacher

• Manager
• To order and structure the learning environment
• Classroom Management
• For learning activities
• Rules
• Procedures
• Organize classroom space to
• Fit goals
• Maximize learning

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Roles of a Teacher

• Classroom Management
• classroom space
• Seating arrangements
• Posters
• Bulletin Boards
• Resource books arranged
• Learning stations, bookshelves, furniture,
• Modeling a positive attitude toward
• Curriculum
• School
• Learning

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Roles of a Teacher

• Classroom Management
• modeling
• Instill and reinforce positive attitudes in
  students
• Manage and process clerical work
• Read and grade papers
• Grade tests
• Grade book maintenance
• Attendance records
• Files, notes, letters

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Roles of a Teacher

• Counselor
• Needed to
• Develop interpersonal sensitivity
• Effectively deal with day-to-day problems
• Be prepared to
• Respond constructively
• Assist students and parents
• Work with colleagues
• Be supportive

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Roles of a Teacher

• Teachers work with students, parents,
  administrators, colleagues
• Must have good skills!
• Human relations
• Communication
• Must understand
• People and their behaviors
• Yourself
• Motivations, hopes, prejudices, desires
• These affect your ability to relate to others

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What is Teaching?

• Imparting skill or knowledge
• Giving instruction
• Helping students acquire or change
• Skill
• Knowledge
• Ideals
• Attitudes
• Appreciation

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What is Teaching?

• All aspects of student development
• Physical
• Social
• Emotional
• Cognitive
• The actions of someone who is trying to assist
  others to reach their fullest potential in all
  aspects of development
• (Moore, 2007, p. 5).

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Reflective Teaching

• Develop skills that enable self-analysis of
• Teaching episodes
• Focusing on events rather than personalities or
  individuals
• Systematic observation for patterns and trends of
  teaching and learning behavior

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Reflective Teaching

• Adapt!
• Focus on inquiry and problem solving
• Teaching is dynamic and ever-changing
• Theory and practice
• Through the process of deliberation teachers
  become more thoughtful teachers

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Reflective Teaching

• Expect that students intellects, emotions,
  self-esteem, and self-worth deserve respect and
  enhancement
• Be sensitive to diversity and family background

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Reflective Teaching

• If your students are not successful, ask
  yourself, How can I change my methods and
  behaviors to ensure their success?
• Reflective teachers
• Adapt lessons to learner needs
• Examine student satisfaction
• Engage students in the lesson
• Encourage students to assume responsibility for
  their own learning
• Adapt subject matter to individual needs

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The Decision Maker

• What content to teach
• Goals and objectives
• What should the student know and be able to do
• Facilitate learning
• Theoretical vs. Active knowledge

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The Decision Maker

• Problem solving is central to the decision
  making process
• Diagnose the situation
• Collect and analyze information
• Identify alternatives
• Make the decision
• Apply and test the decision

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Specific Teaching Skills

• Because of developmental differences teachers
  must model physical, social, emotional, and
  cognitive skills
• A Teacher is expected to be
• Subject matter expert
• Counselor
• Social psychologist
• Mental health worker
• Youth group worker

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Generic Teaching Skills

• Preinstructional
• Page 9-11
• Instructional
• Page 11-12
• Postinstructional
• Page 12

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School Organization Patterns

• Continuous progress education
• Self-contained classrooms
• Departmentalization
• Teaming
• Flexible block scheduling

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The Curriculum

• The explicit
• Formally acknowledged and adopted by the school
  or district
• The hidden
• Unintended attitudes and behaviors
• The integrated
• Correlation
• Integration
• Extracurricular activities

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Strategies for School Improvement

• School-based management
• Parent and community involvement
• Charter schools
• Year-round schooling