Monday, October 7, 2013

Follow Up to Session #14 - Individualized Teaching Techniques

Follow Up to Session #14 - Individualized Teaching Techniques

What are you curious about?
  • More examples of what individual teaching techniques are
    • You can read more about individualized teaching techniques in your Teaching Methods Text, Chapter 7.  You can also utilize some really great educational websites for more information on supervised study, independent study, experiments, personal notebooks, worksheets, and many others!
  • Using reinforcement when a student answers question wrong
    • You never want to make a student feel bad about answering a questions wrong, so thank them for answering, followed by a probing statement, such as "That's not quite what I was looking for" and rephrasing, redirecting, or refocusing the question to allow the student to rethink their answer.
  • Keeping both the 'smarter' kids and those that need more help engaged
    • Differentiated Instruction!! - http://www.ascd.org/research-a-topic/differentiated-instruction-resources.aspx
  • How to Use Supervised Study in class
    • Supervised study; a discussion of the study lesson in high school  a book written by Alfred Lawrence Hall-Quest is a great resource for learning how to utilize Supervised Study in high school classes!


What did you learn?
  1. Individual Teaching Techniques
  2. 5 Characteristics of Effective Questions
  3. Supervised Study
  4. Asking student to look deeper is not negative
  5. Ways to get student to think
  6. What is negative reinforcement
  7. How to Phrase Questions to get the most positive thinking with students

What do you want to learn more about?
  • Negative/Positive Reinforcement and Negative/Positive Punishment
    • http://www2.psychology.uiowa.edu/faculty/wasserman/glossary/reinforcement.html - This website provides great definitions and examples of reinforcement and punishment
  • More examples on how to use Individual teaching techniques in classrooms
    • You can read more about individualized teaching techniques in your Teaching Methods Text, Chapter 7.  You can also utilize some really great educational websites for more information on supervised study, independent study, experiments, personal notebooks, worksheets, and many others!
  • Planning Question!
    • Refer to your Teaching Methods Text!  There is some great information in there regarding how to script questions!
  • How to Use Supervised Study in class
    • Supervised study; a discussion of the study lesson in high school  a book written by Alfred Lawrence Hall-Quest is a great resource for learning how to utilize Supervised Study in high school classes!

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