Understanding Great Teaching Overview of the acticle by

Understanding Great Teaching Overview of the acticle by Ken Bain and James Zimmerman

What makes a good teacher? To anwser this question we first need to think about student approaches to learning

Different Student Approaches to Learning Surface learners Strategic learners Deep learners

What makes a student choose one approach over another? Intelligence? Schooling ¨Thus, we could think of great theacher as those people with considerable success in fostering deep approaches and results among their students. ¨

So how do we stimulate deep learning? n n n 1) 2) The challenge of learned schemas “Human beings are most likely to lean deeply when they are trying to solve promblems or answer questions that they have come to regard as important, intriguing, or beautiful “Expectation failure” Two choices Use existing paradigm Change their mental model

People Learn Best and Most Deeply When. . . n n n n They can try, fail, receive feedback, and try again before anyone makes a judgement of their work; They can work collaboratively with other learners struggling with the same problems; They face repeated challenges to their existing fundamental paradigms; and care that their existing paradigms do not work; They can get support (emotional, physical, and intellectual) when they need it; They feel in control of their own learning, not manipulated; They believe that their work will matter; They believe people have faith in their ability to learn; They believe that they can learn.

Implications for English Language Learners? How can this article be applied to language teaching? n What schemas do our students have about learning English? n What questions can we ask to get them to think differently about learning English? n

Rethinking Language Learning Teaching Learning Strategies 1) You will hear and see a list of characteristics and strategies that are shared by successful language learners. While listening, list as many of them as you can. 2) What kind of stratagies are built into this class? 3) How do you know (from the things that she says and that you observe)?

“For things we must lean to do before we can do them, we learn by doing them. ” Aristotle

References http: //www. montclair. edu/academy/ Bain, K. &Zimmerman, J. 2009 Undserstanding Great Teaching The Association of American Colleges and Universitites