From Fenway Park to the Mall of America: A Multi-Collaborative Approach to Teaching and Learning

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Freiberg ◽  
Julie Ralston Aoki
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Collaborative Approach ◽  
Approach To Teaching ◽  
Fenway Park

Relationship Building in a Black Space: Partnering in Solidarity

2020 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 432-455
Author(s):  
Davena Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environment ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Relationship Building ◽  
Collaborative Approach ◽  
Black Teacher ◽  
Teacher Researcher ◽  
Critical Autoethnography ◽  
Approach To Teaching ◽  
English Classroom ◽  
11Th Grade

Given the persistence of anti-Blackness, the author demonstrates what can happen when Blackness takes precedence over anti-Blackness in an 11th-grade English classroom. This study uses critical autoethnography to explore a collaborative approach to teaching and learning that sustains Blackness. The author uses storying to amplify the significance of relationship building between a Black teacher and a Black teacher-researcher. This research further provides tools for transforming classrooms into sites of hope, healing, and resistance in a time when Black lives matter more than ever. In closing, the author offers the framework of justice-oriented solidarity (JOS) and highlights the power of cocollaboration to create an antiracist learning environment that sustains Blackness.

scholarly journals Teaching together: Reflections on developing a collaborative approach to pedagogy within a tertiary teaching team

Teachers Work ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (1and2) ◽  
pp. 4-9
Author(s):  
Hilary Dutton ◽  
Annelies Kamp ◽  
Christoph Teschers
Keyword(s):  
Social Action ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Collaborative Teaching ◽  
Collaborative Approach ◽  
Democratic Pedagogy ◽  
Select Group ◽  
Tertiary Teaching ◽  
Core Courses ◽  
Approach To Teaching ◽  
Teaching Team

In this reflection, we discuss our experience of engaging in collaborative teaching underpinned by principles of democratic pedagogy in a new bachelor degree aimed at leadership for social action. By collectively developing a common pedagogical framework for a select group of core courses within the degree, our intent was to provide a consistent and coherent approach to teaching and learning. Here, we share some of the opportunities and challenges that we experienced on our journey of teaching together, including questions regarding our responsibilities to one another as educators, and the complexities of practicing democratic pedagogy. 

Pressures of Managerialism and its Implications: Perspectives from the Centre and the Secondary School

1997 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 276-288 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bridget M. Leggett
Keyword(s):  
School Improvement ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
School Administration ◽  
Central Office ◽  
School Personnel ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Approach To Teaching ◽  
Secondary School Administration ◽  
Western Australian

CENTRALLY prescribed managerialist practices have become part of the assumed processes of secondary school administration. But the logic which linked the new practices for central office bureaucrats was absent in the understandings of teachers in Western Australian secondary schools in 1992. There were substantial differences in the meanings attributed to key concepts and the value ascribed to the required procedures. The implications of these differences are established in this paper, using insights from central office and school personnel. Particular attention is given to the three agendas of school improvement, accountability and participative decision making. The pressure to re-norm the management of schooling has been applied through a range of discursive practices including the use of language, the presumption of meaning and the enforcement of policy. Although claims have been made that these changes have resulted in a more professional approach to teaching and learning, questions remain as to their real impact.

ДІАЛОГІЧНИЙ ПІДХІД ДО ОРГАНІЗАЦІЇ НАВЧАЛЬНО-ВИХОВНОГО ПРОЦЕСУ

2012 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
Author(s):  
В. В. Морозов
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Approach To Teaching

В статті розглядається діалогічний підхід до організації навчально-виховного процесу та його використання у практиці навчання середньої та вищої шкіл.Ключові слова: діалог, діалогічне навчання.The article deals with the diaglogical approach to teaching and learning process and its application at secondary schools and universities.Key words: dialogue, dialogical training.

scholarly journals The merits of teaching mathematics with variation

Pythagoras ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Mhlolo
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Learning Style ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Mathematics Classroom ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Variation Patterns ◽  
Approach To Teaching ◽  
Theory Of Variation ◽  
Radical Shift ◽  
New Curricula

There is a general perception that the South African curriculum statements for mathematics create polarity between the ‘old’ and the ‘new’, which does not benefit both the teachers and the learners. The new curricula demand a radical shift from the traditional teacher-led approaches that teachers are familiar with, yet does not provide a model of what it might mean to teach for conceptual understanding. This article aims to provide such a model by examining the potential of teaching with variation, which is viewed as an important mathematics teaching and learning style. Proponents of the theory of variation claim that how teachers make available the object of learning to their students has been neglected yet it has a critical influence on learners’ learning. This is important for educators as they struggle to make sense of the seemingly contradictory requirements of the new curriculum. In this article a discernment unit comprising four variation patterns is used as a tool to analyse a seemingly rich teacher-led approach to teaching that was observed in one South African Grade 11 mathematics classroom. The results of the analysis and implications for theory and practice are then discussed.

scholarly journals Naked teaching: uncovering selves in the reflexive classroom

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keith Berry ◽  
Nathan Hodges
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Personal Stories ◽  
Doctoral Candidate ◽  
Approach To Teaching

This autoethnography explores our experiences teaching an undergraduate autoethnography course entitled, ‘Writing Lives’. We, Keith and Nathan, Professor and Doctoral candidate, convey narrative scenes and reflections of sharing and analysing our published stories with students, working with students through the process of writing their personal stories, and transformative moments during the course. We emphasise a vulnerable, reflexive, and empathetic approach to teaching and learning that allows students and teachers to uncover aspects of who they are and hope to be in the classroom. This work advocates a number of unique benefits to autoethnographic practices that foster open and intimate bonds.

scholarly journals Developing Creativity Through Creative Engagement in Art Appreciation: Outcomes in Teaching Humanities

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 49-59
Author(s):  
Ma Cecilia Alimen ◽  
Pinky Jasmin Poral ◽  
Rhounella Rhane Magpantay ◽  
Rosella Quiros ◽  
Ma Elena Azarcon
Keyword(s):  
Student Engagement ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Art Appreciation ◽  
Personal Reflection ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Outcome Based Education ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Approach To Teaching ◽  
Art Activities

This descriptive-correlational study determined the level of creative engagement as part of humanities teaching in the outcome-based education. This focuses on the dimension of student engagement and creativity in the context of a new approach to teaching and learning primarily through the arts. This study captures student creative engagement supported by their personal reflection after the course term. There were eight (8) classes utilized with 134 students. Results showed that the level of students’ creativity in art appreciation was “high” and it was also “high” when they were grouped as to sex. Creative engagement in art appreciation was considered “highly influential” and it was “highly influential” when they were grouped as to sex. No significant difference was noted in the level of the students’ creative engagement and development of creativity. There was a moderate and positive correlation between the level of the students’ creative engagement and influence of creative engagement in art appreciation classes to their development of creativity. The most highly valued creative engagement practices of students in art appreciation are: “I have developed an appreciation for the local arts;” “I have deepened my sensitivity of myself, my community and the society,” and “Inclusion of art activities demonstrated my understanding of art appreciation.

scholarly journals Contextually responsive and knowledge-focused teaching: disrupting the notion of ‘best practices’

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (SI) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ceclia Jacobs ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Staff Development ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Knowledge Bases ◽  
Good Teaching ◽  
Approach To Teaching ◽  
Conceptual Paper ◽  
Higher Education Teaching

The notion that universal ‘best practices’ underpin higher education teaching is problematic. Although there is general agreement in the literature that good teaching is not decontextualised but rather that it is responsive to the context in which it occurs, generic views of teaching and learning continue to inform practices at universities in South Africa. This conceptual paper considers why a decontextualised approach to higher education teaching prevails and interrogates factors influencing this view, such as: the knowledge bases informing this approach to teaching, the factors from within the higher education sector that shape this approach to teaching, as well as the practices and Discourses prevalent in the field of academic development. The paper argues that teaching needs to be both contextually responsive and knowledge- focused. Disrupting ‘best practices’ approaches require new ways of undertaking academic staff development, which are incumbent on the understandings that academic developers bring to the enterprise.

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