Overview
- facilitative teaching for international TAs
- teacher-student interaction and classroom dynamics on the CU Boulder campus
- learner centered syllabus
- workshop facilitative teaching in your field
- most importantly: use facilitative teaching
Understanding Facilitative Teaching Styles in the US
Susanne Stadlbauer, Ph.D.
Lead Coordinator for Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
Graduate Teacher Program
Before we start...
- Recall an hour of teaching in your past that was most effective or impressive! Describe it!
- Write down three attributes about what made that teaching event effective!
Discussion
we will return to it later...
So, we did facilitative teaching.
Discuss with your neighbor:
- How effective would these activities be in your field?
- How is facilitative teaching different/similar to your favorite teaching lesson?
Thank you and stay in touch!
Susanne Stadlbauer
stadlbau@colorado.edu
gtpleads@colorado.edu
...or stop by the GTP in Atlas 201!
Some teaching styles
TEACHER AS DELEGATOR
TEACHER AS AUTHORITY
teacher-centered
places responsibility of learning on students
formal
gives students a choice of implementing their own learning tasks
limited student participation
authoritative
techno-phobic
students work independently or in groups
Transparency
TEACHER AS FACILITATOR
limited teacher-student relationships
students learn management, interpersonal relationships, and group dynamics
Clarifying and focus the agenda!
Use road maps of topics!
Create clear syllabi and grading rubrics!
Facilitative Teacher
- teacher-student dynamics
- classroom culture
- learning-styles
- media literacy
- transparency
Learning-styles
How do I know all the different ways that students process
information?
How can I motivate all (well, ... most) students to participate?
How can I effectively implement appropriate instructional strategies?
Not here, but visit sessions on
KOLB LSI !!
Teacher-Student Dynamics
Today: 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Friday: 8:30 PM - 10:00 AM
What is your role as a teacher?
Should you learn about your students?
Students at CU Boulder are...
Students are used to...
- smart
- informal
- engage in lots of extracurricular activities
- diverse
- entitled
- speak their minds
- interact in class
- teachers who are
- computer savvy
- constructive
- connected
- communicative
Gloria Ladson-Billings
Media Literacy
besides print, visuals, audio, or videos, think about teaching with...
Classroom Culture
... and there is much more!!
How do we create a positive learning environment in the classroom
Why should we involve students in teaching?
Why?
- show respect
- work with students' backgrounds
- students invest in learning and take responsibility in their one learning
- create learning communities
Group work
Discussion leaders and debates
online posting
- positive peer pressure
- becoming experts
- do research beyond the assignements
- fun!!!
- creating a learning community
- learn from each other
- get inspired to do the reading
- but, not universally liked
- releases creativity
- draws in media and news
- allows students to engage with each other
- close to students' "natural habitat"