About the foundations project, to offer a little more guidance since I
think there is still some uncertainty, here are some things that might
be done:
- a unit of teaching with lessons and activities for any level
- a movie (your own, NOT taken off youtube) showing varied teaching
techniques and practices and possibly commentary on ways to teach
effectively
- interview a series of practitioners/experts in education, and
compile ideas and activities into a summary of suggestions for
effective instruction
- have somebody tape you delivering lessons, then critique your own
teaching and write a list of ways to improve, then possibly try some
of these ideas and reflect on them
- do the above, but get a colleague or administrator to help with the
critique and reflection
- work with a group in the class (3 to 4 students) and each of you
will observe the others teaching, or a movie of you cannot do it in
person, then each of you will offer the others ideas for improvement.
Each of you can then put together an improvement plan based on the
contributions of your peers
- a research project with the focus on effective teaching. Take the
results and compile a sort of top ten summary of lessons or ideas that
may be most efffective for you, giving reasoning for each
- take any one of our class sessions or readings and use it as the
base for a unit of teaching, then do some research as to how you might
go about creating this unit, and write up the results of the research
- create a blog and invite experts and others to comment on effective
teaching techniques
- build a facebook page and invite teachers to share techniques and stories
- for those of you more interested in the administrative side of
things, you may make that the basis for a project, working on and
researching some aspect of effective administration for educators
I would prefer electronic submission for this project, but I am
flexible in that I know there are some whose projects may need some
actual product, which cannot be sent over e-mail. That's alright, and
we will work with each case as it arises. Please feel comfortable
going out and trying something new for this project. Unlike the
application paper, which is pretty much a standard research paper,
this is chance for you to try something you have always been
interested in and to trial some new approaches. The only mistake here
is not trying.
Turning now to the three weeks Dr. Sawattana will facilitate the
class, think about what themes you might like to pursue for week three
and bring your thoughts to class next week so we can sort out groups
quickly using a minimum of class time. Do the same for week four in
terms of thinking about the country you would like to research. We do
need for one group to look at Thailand, and ideally some, or at least
one, in this group who are able to read Thai, so that they can look at
the Ministry of Education website for ideas. Also, remember that we
will use the same groupings to look at the legal questions for week
five.
Last point, please remember to read the first Ozman and Craver reading
on the philosophical aspects of education prior to next week so as to
be ready for our class discussion. See you in class!
think there is still some uncertainty, here are some things that might
be done:
- a unit of teaching with lessons and activities for any level
- a movie (your own, NOT taken off youtube) showing varied teaching
techniques and practices and possibly commentary on ways to teach
effectively
- interview a series of practitioners/experts in education, and
compile ideas and activities into a summary of suggestions for
effective instruction
- have somebody tape you delivering lessons, then critique your own
teaching and write a list of ways to improve, then possibly try some
of these ideas and reflect on them
- do the above, but get a colleague or administrator to help with the
critique and reflection
- work with a group in the class (3 to 4 students) and each of you
will observe the others teaching, or a movie of you cannot do it in
person, then each of you will offer the others ideas for improvement.
Each of you can then put together an improvement plan based on the
contributions of your peers
- a research project with the focus on effective teaching. Take the
results and compile a sort of top ten summary of lessons or ideas that
may be most efffective for you, giving reasoning for each
- take any one of our class sessions or readings and use it as the
base for a unit of teaching, then do some research as to how you might
go about creating this unit, and write up the results of the research
- create a blog and invite experts and others to comment on effective
teaching techniques
- build a facebook page and invite teachers to share techniques and stories
- for those of you more interested in the administrative side of
things, you may make that the basis for a project, working on and
researching some aspect of effective administration for educators
I would prefer electronic submission for this project, but I am
flexible in that I know there are some whose projects may need some
actual product, which cannot be sent over e-mail. That's alright, and
we will work with each case as it arises. Please feel comfortable
going out and trying something new for this project. Unlike the
application paper, which is pretty much a standard research paper,
this is chance for you to try something you have always been
interested in and to trial some new approaches. The only mistake here
is not trying.
Turning now to the three weeks Dr. Sawattana will facilitate the
class, think about what themes you might like to pursue for week three
and bring your thoughts to class next week so we can sort out groups
quickly using a minimum of class time. Do the same for week four in
terms of thinking about the country you would like to research. We do
need for one group to look at Thailand, and ideally some, or at least
one, in this group who are able to read Thai, so that they can look at
the Ministry of Education website for ideas. Also, remember that we
will use the same groupings to look at the legal questions for week
five.
Last point, please remember to read the first Ozman and Craver reading
on the philosophical aspects of education prior to next week so as to
be ready for our class discussion. See you in class!
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