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GOMATESH M. RAVANAVAR
SAVITA G. RAVANAVAR
BAHUBALI COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, SHRAVANABELAGOLA
Prerequisite/Assumption
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Topics Addressed
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Invocation
“I am teaching……….
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Effective Teaching Workshop
Time
Management
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Workshop Learning Objectives
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• Devise preliminary course activities that capture interest
and motivate learning.
– Kierkegaard
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Cont…
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Conclusion:
To maximize student learning, all we
have to work with is our teaching style.
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• Ideal Class:
• Actual Class:
Ability
Teaching Back ground
Style
Learning Styles
what we what they
teach learn
Motivation
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A Model of Learning Styles
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Preferred Learning Style
Every individual has a preferred way to receive
(perception
(p & input modality),, understand, process
and communicate information.
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Sensing v/s Intuitive
Learners
• Focus on external input • Focus on internal input
(see, hear, taste, touch, (thoughts, memories,
smell) images)
• Practical • Imaginative
• Observant (notice details • Look for meanings (miss
of environment) details)
• Concrete thinking (facts, • Abstract thinking
data, hands-on work) (theories, math models)
• Complaint about courses: • Complaint about courses:
No apparent connection "Plug & Chug" (Lots of
to real world memorization, repetitive
formula substitution)
• Problem with exams: Run • Problem with exams:
out of time Careless mistakes
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Visual v/s Verbal
Learners
• "Show me." • "Explain it to me."
pictures spoken words,
diagrams written words,
symbols
sketches
schematics (seen, but translated
flow charts by brain into their
oral equivalents)
plots
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Active v/s Reflective
Learners
• Tend to process actively • Tend to process
(doing something physical reflectively (thinking
with presented material, about presented material,
then reflecting on it) then doing something
• Think out loud with it)
• "Let's try it out and see • Work introspectively
how it goes." • "Let's think it through and
• Tend to jump in then try it."
prematurely • Tend to delay starting
• Like group work • Like solo or pair work
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Sequential v/s Global
Learners
• Build Understanding in • Absorb information
logical sequential steps randomly, then synthesize
the big picture
• Function with partial • Need the big picture
understanding of (interrelations,
information connections to other
subjects and personal
experience) in order to
function with information
• Make steady progress • Large leaps in
understanding with little
progress between them
• Explain easily • Can't explain easily
• Good at analytical • Synthesis, holistic
thinking (the trees) thinking (the forest)
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Resources
http://www.engr.ncsu.edu/learningstyles/ilsweb.html
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Exercise: Who’s Talking?
• Page no A-5
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Results
• Most undergraduates are sensors.
sensors. Most Professors
are intuitors and those professors who are sensors
teach intuitively.
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Society: loses potentially excellent professionals.
- visual, active learners (most students)
- sensing learners
- global learners
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Course Example
Conventional Approach
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How to address the full spectrum of the learning styles?
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Summary
• All types of learners are needed in every
profession.
profession.
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Two Guiding Principles
Of Effective Teaching
Balance
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“Effective teaching should expand the
differences between students rather than
restrict them”
- Tomlinson
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Learning Objectives
Where ‘…..’
…..’ begins with an action word (explain,
calculate, design, ... )
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Bloom's Taxonomy of Learning
Objectives: Cognitive Domain
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Illustration
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Why to Write Objectives?
•Provide
Provide a study guide
for students
•Mandatory
Mandatory requirement
as per VTU, AICTE, NBA
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Objective v/s Outcome
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The illiterate of the 21st century will not
be those who cannot read and write, but
those who cannot learn, unlearn, and
relearn (Adapt to a rapidly changing
environment)
- Alvin Toffler
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Review of Day 1
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Retention with Time
Greater the number and involvement of senses of perception, better the learning
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Time
Management
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“IT IS NOT THE TEACHER’S TASK TO TEACH
INTERESTING THINGS...
THINGS...
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What to Do
During the First Week ?
Possible first week activities:
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“ As you enter a classroom ask your self
this question: If there were no students in
the classroom, could I do what I am
planning to do? If your answer is yes,
don’t do it”
- Ruben Cubero
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Lecturing Tips
• Decide on a reasonable amount of time to prepare
for a lecture and stick to it
• Organize your lecture around your learning
objective(s)
• Preview lecture content and learning objectives
• Write clear detailed notes for yourself
• Prepare lots of visuals
• Plan demonstrations whenever possible
• Use technology wisely
• If it isn't written down, it will be ignored
• Give out handouts with gaps
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Application of Technology
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During the Lecture
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• Don't be afraid to pause periodically
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Improving Your Lecture
Effectiveness
• Have students complete a midterm course evaluation
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A Question
• What are the reasons for bad (poor) evaluation
of the students?
• Individual
• Collaborative
• “Active Learning”
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Active Learning
What is it?
Getting students to do something course-
related in class other than just watching and
listening to the instructor.
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Why do it?
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Lecture content v/s time duration
Experimental Study
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Active Learning Structures
• In-Class Teams
• Think-Pair-Share
• Cooperative Note-Taking Pairs
• Guided Reciprocal Peer Questioning?
• Writing assignments
• Concept tests with clickers
• Pair programming
• Minute paper
• Thinking Aloud Pair Problem-Solving (TAPPS)
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Implementing Active Learning in
Class
• Explain what you're doing and why up front.
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• Keep activities short (30 seconds - 3 minutes).
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What Might Happen if You Start
Using Active Learning?
• Initial awkwardness (the students and you) and
noncompliance
• Rapidly increasing comfort level except for a few
students who remain resistant
• Much higher levels of energy and participation
• More and better questions and answers from
students
• Improved class attendance
• Greater learning
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“Examinations are formidable even to the
best prepared for; the greatest fool may
ask more than the wisest man can
answer”
- Charles Colton
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Model Exam
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Tips on Tests
• Make expectations clear
• No surprises
• Test understanding, not speed
• 10% -15% questions of high level
• Take test yourself
• Don’t make too long
• Open or Closed book
• Grade reasonably
• Restrict regrade
• Time for students > 3 x time for the teacher
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Poor Evaluations
• Top three reasons:
– Bad Test
• Too Long
• Too Tricky
• Unexpected material
– Bad Assignment
• Too long
• Poorly Designed
• Too much busy work
– Bad Attitude
• Sarcastic
• Discriminatory Behavior & language
• Un helpful, Un available
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Faculty Guide to Time
Management
• How to simultaneously write proposals, do
research, prepare notes, write papers, teach
classes, advise students, grade papers, serve on
committees, eat, sleep and occasionally visit
your family……?
• Remember…
– Stay in good health
– Prioritize your goals
– Develop a Gantt chart
– Create and frequently update ‘a to-do list’
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Four – Quadrant System
II – Important but not I - Urgent and Important
Urgent (Deadline-driven activities
(Deadline- that
(Long-term professional, family
(Long- further your goals)
and personal activities that
further your goals)
On
http:
http://www4
//www4.ncsu.
ncsu.edu/unity/lockers/users/f/felder/public/
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Accomplish the Success
Overcome Barriers
Have A Dream
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Acknowledgements
• Richard M. Felder & Rebecca Brent, “Workshop on
Effective Teaching and Learning”, IUCEE FLI 2009,
Global Education Centre, Infosys Campus, Mysore, 29
June – 3 July, 2009
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You can share your ideas with us
@
• gomatesh@gmail.com
• sgravanavar@gmail.com
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