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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...

Games

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"
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