Professional Development plan:
How will you continue to develop after you have completed the PIDP? I will keep learning, I will keep reflecting and do it more often.I found that it really helps. I may try to tackle the masters degree at SFU, cost and time are two factors that may affect that decision. Describe where you are professionally, and where you would like to be in five years. What are some steps you can take to get there? At the moment I am not working in the education field, I do have opportunities to once I get enough in field experience under my belt I will be able to apply for a trades trainer position. The steps I need to take to get there is be ambitious in learning as much about the utilities field as I can and make a good name for my self. (Some examples of questions you could answer: Are there conferences in your field you could attend? Professional organizations you could join or volunteer with? I can try to get some teaching time in the trades training centre, I have already mentioned given them a heads up about my capstone project. If I do well (hopefully) they will give me more chances to teach and when a teaching position comes up and I am more experience i can apply for it and have a goos chance. Short courses you could take? I will have to look into it, I would like to take another short course on line for sure. Could you start a study group? I could if I was enrolled in a course. Do you need to practice interview skills or update your resume?) Note – if you have employment plans you don’t want made public, please contact your instructor! I am not at that point yet, I have to at least get 3 years of field experience befor i am ready to update my resume. As for for interviews, I am pretty good at talking to people so I think I will be ok with that.
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Chapter 6
Lecturing Creatively What is with it ? why is it done ? is it out dated ? can you get students involved in a lecture or is it just the teacher that takes the stage ? What is the role of the teacher ? the student ? can we make it engaging ? all these questions, that can be asked by educators or students. there are many opinions, some in favour, and some against, some favour discussions over lectures. “an abused calls into question the expertise of those abusing it, not the validity of the method itself.” The Skillful teacher Stephen D Brookfeild Chapter 6 (P172 Ebook) Why Lecture ? In chapter 6 Stephen D Brookfield points out: -To establish the broad outline of a body of material. -To explain with the frequent examples, concepts that learners struggle to understand. -To introduce alternative perspectives and interpretations. -To model intellectual attitudes and behaviours you wish to encourage in students. -To encourage learners interest in a topic. Characteristics of a helpful lecture: -Use a variety of teaching and communication -Clearly organized so students can follow the thread of lecturing thought -Model the learning behaviours expected in the course. In Chapter 6 Brookfield points out some of his favourite ways of varying how he lectures, some I found them to be interesting: -Lecturing from Siberia, I walk all over the room when Im teaching the class to make sure my voice is heard clearly by all students. I do not teach in an auditorium but can relate in a small way -Using Spatial Separation for “ Speaking in tongues I haven’t really considered the importance of this because teaching a trade may not be as sophisticated as intellectual tradition informing critical thinking. I do however give the class an inspectors point of view and some tradesmen point. An example I may use is doing side jobs, an inspector may say you need a permit for all electrical work for liability purposes. where a tradesmen’s view may be different, “ I need the money to pay my bills” “the inspector will just pick more things to make me fix for the customer and the customer may not be happy or willing to pay.” I do this so my learners can put some thought into the different perspectives and it may encourage them to asking questions with both views in mind. I found this chapter by Stephen D Brookfield interesting, I helps with understanding how to do a good lecture. I downloaded an App called ItunesU and there is a course by a good lecturer named Introduction to Phycology by Paul Bloom and I found his lectures very interesting, I never lost interest. url accreditation
"Accreditation is an ongoing process of assessing health and social services organizations against standards of excellence to identify what is being done well and what needs to be improved. It involves all members of your organization, from your board of directors to frontline staff as well as members of the community including patients and families and your community partners. It allows you to understand how to make better use of your resources, increase efficiency, enhance quality and safety, and reduce risk."(https://accreditation.ca/accreditation/) I work in the electrical trade and the apprentice ship is accredited it is regulated by the ITA industry training assosiation and the BC safety authority in BC a number of schools in Canada teach the apprenticeship making it an accredited course or program. It consists of 4 in class periods every year in a four year apprenticeship. Each level is a 10 week duration.I think it is done well and is designed to give apprentices good exposure to the electrical trade before the J man ticket where I really feel is when the higher learning starts. Chapter 16 Understanding student resistance to learning resistance to learning , Is it our productivity is it our fault , responsibility ? I think that some of the factors may be our productivity, We as educators should be aware that every class is different and a small part may be the fact that the students need to adjust and be part of the class. I think its also that the instructor needs to do some shaping and molding to suit the needs of his learners and we should know that one thing that worked in one class may not work well in the other class. So in part I do feel part of our professionalism, approaches, teaching methods and our productivity may lead to some student resistance to learning. According to student-learning-six-causes-of-resistance by Maryellen Weimer, PhD “Stephen Brookfield writes about students who are beyond being passive about learning—they just plain resist it. He suggests that teachers can’t respond successfully unless they are knowledgeable about the sources of resistance to learning. Here’s a sample of possibilities that appear in his book The Skillful Teacher.” 6 causes of learning resistance are: “Poor self-image as learners” They are discouraged by their own opinion of themselvesIf, they don’t feel smart enough and give up the effort to learn and resist.f“Developing a strong self-image as a learner ”regarding oneself as someone able to acquire new skills, knowledge, behaviors, and insights—is a crucial psychological underpinning to learning.” (p. 217)” “Fear of the unknown” Being afraid to go out of their comfort zones and feel safer sticking to what they already know, what their parents already taught them. “People committed to eternal verities can withstand years of dissonant experiences and mountains of contradictory evidence that call these [beliefs] into question.” (p. 218) 3 “Disjunction between learning and teaching styles” Students resisting because of their preferred approach to learning is not the same as the teacher teaching style. 4 “Apparent irrelevance of the learning activity” When the student can’t see how the the learning activity helps their efforts to learn, they may feel like its a waste of time. As a result they resist. You may see this more in students who have paid for their education. 5 “Inappropriate level of required learning” Frustration and anger to not understanding the content, the complexity or the cact that they cant understand the material which leads to frustration and that frustration leads to resistance 6 “Students’ dislike of teachers” Not everyone will like you as their teacher , it may be because of many factors your look, culture, the way you talk your personality or many other things. This can cause resistance to learning. The challenges we face as teacher are not easy but understanding what those challenges may be will help us better succeed in our efforts to do what we love doing. teaching and making a difference in our students lives. |
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