Foundations of Teaching for Learning: Introduction
https://www.coursera.org/learn/teaching
by Commonwealth Education Trust Professor John MacBeath
One of the things that is important in the teacher's repertoire is to think about how change in information is requiring children and teachers to store information outside the body.
Are we preparing students for jobs that don't yet exist, using technologies that haven't even been invented yet, in order to solve problems that we don't even know are problems yet?
that process of thinking about our thinking often called metacognitive activity.
Week 1: Being a teacher: a professional privilege
- Video lecture 1: About the course
- Video lecture 2: Being a teacher
- Video lecture 3: The world of childhood
- Video lecture 4: Being a professional
Week 2: Thinking about learning
- Video lecture 1: Revisiting learning
- Video lecture 2: Thinking about thinking
- Video lecture 3: Teaching for learning
- Video lecture 4: Thinking about curriculum
Week 3: How good is my classroom?
- Video lecture 1: What is a good school?
- Video lecture 2: Questioning
- Video lecture 3: Thinking about Assessment
- Video lecture 4: Planning for Improvement
Week 4: Continuing to learn in a changing world
- Video lecture 1: A world of change
- Video lecture 2: Outside of school
- Video lecture 3: Professional development
- Video lecture 4: A review: Questions of professionalism
Grading policy:
- Quizzes (Weighting: 40%): There will be four quizzes in total. Each quiz is worth 10% of the final course grade.
- There will be two Peer Reviewed Essays (Weighting: 60%): In weeks two and four, you will have a peer reviewed essay of around 500-700 words to write.
- For the peer review essays, you are expected to grade three other pieces of work. In return three other people will grade your work. You are also expected to grade your own essay after seeing what other people have said. There is a penalty of 20% on your grade if you do not complete the peer assessment process of others and yourself.
Week 1: Being a teacher: a professional privilege
Week 2: Thinking about learning
- do your students ever doubt their ability or intelligence?
- Do they talk themselves down? I'm not very good at...
- Are they influenced by what their friends and their peers do or say?
- As a teacher, am I aware of the prior knowledge they bring with them into the classroom.
- Do I understand and check out their misconceptions before going on?
- Do I use the best medium for communicating with them?
Week 3: How good is my classroom?
Week 4: Continuing to learn in a changing world
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