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The true function of the teacher is to create the most favourable conditions for self-learning...True teaching is not that which gives knowledge, but that which stimulates pupils to gain it. One might say that he teaches best who teaches least.
John Milton Gregory
Effective teachers: Know their content Know those whom they teach They do not simply inculcate principles They want to infect people
Effective teachers: their content inculcate |inklkt; inkl-| Know Know those whom verb they teach (an attitude, idea, or habit) by instill They do not persistent instruction simply inculcate teach (someone) an attitude, idea, principles or by such They want to instruction habit infect people
Effective teachers: Know their content Know those whom they teach They do not simply inculcate principles They want to infect people
John Milton Gregory called this The Law of the Teaching Process The key idea is to stimulate and direct the learners self activities
BIRTHDAY LINE
This is a nonverbal exercise - You must communicate without words or sounds (no lip-reading, notes etc. are allowed). The group is to form a single straight line, according to birthdays. January birthdays will be at the beginning of the line, earliest dates first followed in order by later dates.December birthdays will be at the end of the line. When the line is completed, each person will shout out his/her birthday, beginning in January.
Alice can cross the bridge in 1 minute. The others are wounded or injured to varying degrees which means that it takes: Brian 2 minutes to cross the bridge; Carol 5 minutes to cross the bridge; David 10 minutes to cross the bridge. If there is more than one person on the bridge, the bridge can only be crossed at the speed of the slowest person. How can they cross the bridge in 17 minutes?
Alice(1 min) and Brian(2 min) cross the bridge. Alice(1 min) takes the torch back to the other side. Carol(5 min) and David(10 min) cross the bridge. Brian(2 min) takes the torch back to the other side Alice(1 min) and Brian(2 min) cross the bridge.
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The teacher must excite and direct the learners self-activities, and, as a rule, tell the learner nothing - and do nothing for him - that he can learn or do for himself. Therefore, whats important is not what you do as a teacher, but what learners do as a result of what you do.
The teacher: primarily a stimulator and motivator...not the player but the coach who directs the players
The Ultimate Test of teaching is not what you do or how well you do it, but what and how well the learner does. Good teachers are not focussed on what they are doing, but what their students are doing.
Plato said,
What do you honour - or want to - in those you teach? Do you just look for right answers Plato said, and repeated truths?
What is honoured in a What impresses you in a student (or a country is cultivated there person in general)?
Knowledge, wisdom, understanding, application?
Many people who have never sat in a inside a college classroom are brilliantly educated. They are men and women of wisdom, and they have received - and are receiving - an education. They may not know everything, but what they know they live - and God is using them as his instruments to accomplish his purposes Hendricks (page 40-41)
THE TENSION
Abraham Maslow pointed out 4 levels of learning (though he is best known for his hierarchy of needs);
The learners beginning point - everyone starts here - unconscious incompetence - you are ignorant and you dont know it
The next level conscious incompetence - you know you dont know. How do you find out? Someone tells you, or you find out.
The next level conscious Competence - you have learned something, and are consciously aware of it as you do it - e.g. When you have learned to drive a car
The final level unconscious competence - you are so competent you dont have to think about it any more. Much of the time you can spend thinking about something else
The art of teaching - and the difficulty of learning - is getting people to place themselves at the beginning of this cycle so that they can start the learning process. This is not easy -for the teacher or the student Without this tension there is no development, no learning, no growth.
If it was good enough for Jesus...it will be good enough for us During the days of Jesus' life on earth, he offered up prayers and petitions with loud cries and tears to the one who could save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverent submission. Although he was a son, he learned obedience from what he suffered Hebrews 5:7-8
Do you let people in your class feel comfortable? Do you disturb them so that they realise...Ive got to study Gods word more and think more; Ive got to try this out in real life What are the advantages and disadvantages of both styles - when would each be most appropriate / inappropriate?
ROLE PLAY
In 2s - Role play: A skit about Jonah A pastoral visit to a dying person An argument between husband and wife Presenting the Gospel to a difficult, non-believer Or another scenario of your choice
Do you have clear cut objectives for teaching? Do you know how to give a true education?
In the Hospital the relatives gathered in the waiting room, where their family member lay gravely ill. Finally, the doctor came in looking tired and somber. I'm afraid I'm the bearer of bad news," he said as he surveyed the worried faces. "The only hope left for your loved one at this time is a brain transplant. It's an experimental procedure, semi-risky and you will have to pay for the brain yourselves."
The family members sat silent as they absorbed the news. After a great length of time, someone asked, "Well, how much does a brain cost?" The doctor quickly responded, "$20,000 for a Baptist brain, and $200 for a Pentecostal brain." A man, unable to control his curiosity, blurted out the question everyone wanted to ask, "Why is the Baptist brain so much more?"
The doctor smiled at the childish innocence and so to the entire group said, "It's just standard pricing procedure. We have to mark down the price of the Pentecostal brains, because they've been used."
PLANT SEEDS
As a teacher dont simply rearrange students existing ideas - or prejudices Plant seeds - let them germinate - and bear fruit (who knows what form the fruit will take!?) Often students are impacted by things you think are nothing
Remember if you want to teach your students to think - you must be able (know how) to think for yourself
[Jesus]...answered, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself."
Luke 10:27
Every moment you live you learn; as you learn, you live. Stop learning today, and you stop living tomorrow.
Hendricks p.45
Often in churches the people who most need to learn are those who seldom try
Hendricks p.45
Learning should be a logical process - ideally with 3 steps; It goes from the whole - to the part - back to the whole This is called synthesis
synthesis sinsis combination or composition, in particular the combination of ideas to form a theory or system : the synthesis of intellect and emotion in his work | the ideology represented a synthesis of certain ideas.
Synthesis moves from the big picture to an analysis of the parts - breaking them down, seeing their meaning in the light of the whole - to putting them back together so everyone walks out the door thinking, Now I understand it and can use it To get people involved in the process of learning, first, give them the big picture
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THE OT IN 7 MOVES
1. Eden to Ur 2. Ur to Haran 3. Haran to Israel 4. Israel to Egypt 5. Egypt back to Israel 6. Israel to Babylon 7. Babylon back to Israel
THE OT IN 7 MOVES
1. Eden to Ur 2. Ur to Haran 3. Haran to Israel 4. Israel to Egypt 5. Egypt back to Israel 6. Israel to Babylon 7. Babylon back to Israel
Teachers have to develop students who are self directed, disciplined, and who do what they do because they choose to. Hendricks suggests (p48), ...you spend more time questioning answers than answering questions
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BASIC SKILLS
Teaching students to think learn and work requires helping them to master 4 basic skills: Reading - we have talked about this enough! Writing - creative assignments are given Listening Speaking
Hendricks (p 48), The problem with the average guy coming out of university is that he cant read, cant write, and he cant think. And if you cant read, write or think, what can you do? Someone answered, Watch television
Listening is a great art - and crucial to attain Who do you know that is a good listener - the best listener you have ever experienced? Why do you think they are a good listener, what are the qualities of a good listener? Who has ever taught you to listen?
And so we come to the end of another exciting, stimulating, riveting presentation. Surely by now you simply cannot wait to be a teacher? However if you can wait then there are still future sessions in store. Come back soon!