General+Teaching

=General Teaching=

[|10 Characteristics of a Highly Effective Learning Environment]

**[|Five Questions for Planning Successful Web-Based Activities]**
1. ** What is the curriculum related purpose of the activity? ** The outcome or assessment should be aligned to your lesson objectives and standards. 2. ** Does the Internet tool enhance the activity? ** If the answer is no, find a more appropriate place to integrate the web. 3. ** How will students use the online resources? ** Once students locate information, they should be asked to apply, analyze, synthesize, evaluate, or create. The activity should require them to move to higher levels of Bloom's Taxonomy. 4. ** Do students have necessary information analysis/information synthesis skills or am I including these in instruction? ** The project should not become simply an exercise in locating information. Students must have the necessary background knowledge and pre-requisite skills to complete higher level tasks or these must be included in instruction prior to the web-based learning activity. 5. ** Do I have the necessary time and support for the activity? ** Double your original time estimate and always have access to technical support to resolve problems efficiently.

=Eight Habbits of Highly Effective 21st Century Teachers=

=How to Support Teachers?=

= Are they students or learners? =

[|Excellent blog by David Warlick with his chart seen below] // So let me see if I can distinguish between these notions of // students // and // learners //. //


 * || **Students** || **Learners** ||
 * **Relationship with educators** || Students are employees, required to obediently follow instructions. || Learners are citizens with a vested interest in the learning society. ||
 * **Relationship with other “Students”** || Students are competitors || Learners are collaborators ||
 * **Motivation** || Obligation: Students are culturally obliged to work for the teacher & for compensation//(below)// || Responsibility: Learners are motivated by an understood and realized “value” in their work, especially when it is valuable to others. ||
 * **Compensation** || Institution defined grades and gateways to college (another institution) and a good job (another institution) || A sense of ongoing accomplishment that is not delivered but earned, and not symbolic but tangible and valuable — an investment. ||
 * **Mode of Operation** || Compliant, group-disciplined, objective-oriented, and trainable || Persevering, self-disciplined, group- and goal-oriented, resourceful, and **learning in order to achieve** rather than **achieving learning**. ||
 * **Why?** || Compelled || Curious ||
 * **Equipped** || ..with packaged knowledge and tools for recording packaged knowledge — prescribed and paced learning || ..with tools for exploring a networked variety of content, experimenting with that content, and discovering, concluding, and constructing knowledge — invented learning ||
 * **Assessment** || Measuring what the student has learned. || Measuring what the learner can do with what has been learned. ||

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