Is Teaching An Art, Science, or Craft

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Is Teaching An Art, Science, or Craft
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Art

• Be very creative
• Relational between students feeling and
  empathetic
• Teaching is expressive impulsive
• Teaching is intuitive
• Teaching is a very social activity
• Motivation
• Sublime and unexplainable
• Not routine or formulaic

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Scientific

• Put theory into practice
• We have research on what works and what does not
  work, so we can apply that to teaching
• Science is creative and is social construction
• Some teaching is procedural that we can use
• You can measure learning, where they begin and
  what they learn
• You can evaluate or assess
• Reliability of methods
• Empirical nature of public accountability and
  civic responsibility

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Craft

• There is a historical aspect to teaching it can
  be modeled what is good teaching
• A certain aspect of technique
• The process and skills can be learned like basket
  weaving
• Balance between art and science having the
  knowledge but also the relational aspect that
  helps us to know how to meet the needs of
  students
• We work within a certain framework, but we have
  freedom within the framework for how we teach
• We have tools, like a craft that can be shared
• Motivation you have to know each student
  individually to know where they need to go in
  their learning

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What role does technology play?

• Offers different modalities for teaching and
  learning audio, visual
• Offers choice
• Distance learning
• Integrates us to the rest of the world and this
  is a way of life in our larger world and this is
  one medium
• Allows us to tap into many more resources than we
  have in a traditional classroom
• Access to people in rural areas connect us
  across a hundred miles or so
• Technology is a tool - the art that we know can
  be translated across media
• Motivation
• Challenge its not easy.
• PCK PTCK Attend to the learning hierarchy of
  the content, but also the learning trajectory of
  the technology not always aligned.
• Sustainability
• Requires us to become literate in new ways 21st
  Century literacy