Student-centered Mindset

An Attribute of Teaching Excellence and Educational “Hotness”

Part 2 of a 3-part Series
 Facilitators

Dr. Sharry Kimmel Barbara Rodriguez, Ph.D.

Barbara J. Rodriguez, PhD
Professor
AssociateAssociate Vice President
Vice President
Teacher Education Program
 Poll Question #1

What is your employee type?

A. Administrator
B. Full-time Faculty
C. Part-time Faculty
D. Staff
E. Other
 Learning Outcomes
As a result of this webinar, participants will be able to:

Define teaching excellence

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Define what it means to have a

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student-centered mindset

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Identify pedagogical strategies and techniques
that exemplify teaching excellence Outcome 2
 Broward College Demographics

Enrollment Gender Course Load Faculty

70.6% Part-time Students Full-time 411, 25.3%
39,725 Students 59.7% Female
29.4% Full-time Students Part-time 1212, 74.7%
11,675 FTE 40.3% Male

Fall 2017 Data

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Faculty Attributes of Teaching Excellence

Pedagogical Student-centered Assessment

Expertise Mindset Advocate
(Andragogy
) 21, 2017
September November 1, 2017 February 1, 2018

Adopted from Penn State Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence

 Achieving Teaching Excellence

Systematic Consultation Communities Scholarship

"Course" Services of Practice of Teaching &
Offerings Learning
(SoTL)
 Poll Question #2

Has your institution developed a definition for

“teaching excellence”?
A. Yes
B. No
C. Not sure
 Facilitators
This webinar is the second in a three-part
series titled Elevating Your Educational
“Hotness”: Achieving Teaching Excellence.
Dr. Kimmel will share specific student-
centered strategies and resources to assist
faculty in their efforts to achieve teaching
excellence or for those familiar with Rate My
Professor, educational "hotness."
Dr. Sharry Kimmel
Professor
Teacher Education Program
Why Student-centered Learning?
Student-centered Learning
Active learning
Mindset within the
institution
Problem-based learning

Constructivist learning

Innovative teaching Students are in control

Collaboration

Critical thinking
Student-centered Learning

A New Learning Environment

Traditional Environment New Environment
Teacher Centered Student Centered
Single sense stimulation Multisensory stimulation
Single path progression Multipath progression
Isolated work Collaborative work
Information delivery Information exchange
Passive learning Active learning/exploratory or inquiry based learning
Factual/literal thinking Critical thinking/informed decision making
Reactive response Proactive/planned response
Isolated/artificial context Real world context

Sally House, Digital Classrooms: Learning Environments for 21st Century Students
Student-centered Classroom
Engagement
Collaboration

Challenge
Control

Resilience
Personalization
 Poll Question #3

What percentage of your class is student-centered?

A. 0% - 25%
B. 26% - 50%
C. 51% - 75%
D. 76% - 100%
How Do Students Learn Best?

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I hear and I forget.
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I see and I remember.
I do and I understand. Visual Visual
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Kinesthetic
A Student-centered Mindset Promotes Higher Order Thinking

Image source: https://sites.google.com/a/glenview34.org/aprilpdexample/easing-into-a-1-1-

classroom/promoting-higher-order-thinking-skills
Bloom Revised

Image source: https://www.slideshare.net/MsBlazic/flipping-the-classroom-around-the-world

Now I Know Why… Now, I want to Know How…

Perennialism: Education Philosophy

Paideia Institute
 Paideia

“An
unexamined
life is not
worth living”

-Socrates

Dr. Cornel West

Festival of Ideas
West Virginia University, 2009
https://youtu.be/HDOE1PETypU
The Paideia Discussion
Curriculum Relevancy Develop Ground Rules
Premium

Select a Content Excerpt Around a Track Discussion: Methods

BIG Idea

Cover Vocabulary/Content Facilitate

Construct Open Ended Questions Culminate

Strategy #1: Aaronson’s Jigsaw II

A classroom activity that makes students

dependent on each other to succeed. It breaks
classes into groups and breaks assignments
into pieces that the group assembles to
complete the (jigsaw) puzzle.

• Cooperative Learning
• Divide literature into segments
• Read
• Homogeneous and heterogeneous group
discussions Image source: http://serc.carleton.edu/details/images/4698.html

• Authentic assessment
Strategy #2: Concentric Circles

Inside-outside circle is a cooperative learning

strategy. Students form two concentric circles
and take turns on rotation to face new partners.

They answer or discuss instructor questions

This method could be used to:

• Explore concepts
• Share and/or gather new ideas
• Generate new ideas Image source: http://group-games.net/category/icebreakers/

• Solve problems
Other Student-centered Strategies

Guest Speakers Premium

Literature Collection

Field Trips Group and Individual PPT Projects

Drawing & Music Kahoot!

Creating Tests QR Codes

 Facilitators

Dr. Sharry Kimmel Barbara Rodriguez,

Barbara J. Rodriguez, PhD Ph.D.
Professor AssociateAssociate Vice President
Vice President
Teacher Education Program brodrig5@broward.edu
skimmel@broward.edu
 Resources

• Aronson, E., Blaney, N. T., Stephan, C., Rosenfield, R., & Sikes, J. (1977).
Interdependence in the classroom: A field study. Journal of Educational Psychology,
Vol. 69, pp. 121-128.
• Aronson, E., & Bridgeman, D. (1979). Jigsaw groups and the desegregated classroom:
In pursuit of common goals. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Vol. 5, pp. 438-
446.
• Slavin, R. E. (1980). Cooperative learning in teams: State of the art. Educational
Psychologist, Vol. 15, pp. 93-111.
• https://www.paideia.org/
• https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/guides-sub-pages/blooms-taxonomy/ 
• http://www.apa.org/research/action/jigsaw.aspx