Siege Video

Q: What are teachers for ?

• Q: What promotes and sustains student engagement?

• Activity (as distinct from passive listening). Group activities generate much energy.

• A variety of modes of engagement (visual/verbal, active/reflective, global/sequential)

• A task or challenge (i.e. a reason or motivation to seek knowledge)

• A connection with personal experience (a concrete application)

• An opportunity for individual self expression.• A teacher who inspires respect.

What promotes respect for the teacher?

• Authority or Mastery of the Subject matter: Know what you are talking about.

• Enthusiasm: demonstrate your conviction that the subject matter is important.

• Care: demonstrate concern for and empathy with the students; do you know all the first names?

The general principles of any study you may learn by books at home; but the detail, the colour, the tone, the air, the life which makes it live in us, you must catch all these from those in whom it lives already.

• The Education process is a Human Relationship.

Medical School PBL Process

• Appoint Scribe• Brief/Problem• Clarify• Brainstorm• Organise• Initial Solution• Identify Knowledge Gaps

• Make Research Plan• Delegate /Nominate • Read Research Plan• Adjourn• -------------------------• Reconvene• Read Research Plan• Table Research• Organise• Revise Solution Etc

Problem

Solution

•Experience/Experiment • Data/Facts

• Concept • Analysis • Dialogue

• Synthesis • Insight • Evaluation

Bloom / Levels of thinking

• Remember

• Understand

• Apply

• Analyse

•Evaluate

•Create

The Kolb Learning Cycle

Reflect

GeneraliseTest

Experience

Cowen Diagram

• Q: What Business are we in?

• A: Behaviour Change

Understanding Teaching and Learning: the Experience in Higher Education, Prosser, M. and Trigwell, T. SRHE. 1999 (UL Lib 378.125)

Structural Levels of Learning Outcomes

Relational

ExtendedAbstract

Multi-structural

Uni-structural

Pre-structural

Incompetence one relevant aspect

Several relevant independent

aspects

Integration into a structure

Expertise generalised

to new domain

increasing competence

• Week 1 • Mon: Intro, Brainstorm, Solution Types, Prelim

choice of team solution.• Tues: Evaluate Solutions, (includes outline

approach to structural analysis, FBD’s, equilibrium equations, …) , Summarise analysis/evaluation process in simple sketches. Choose Team Solution

• Wed: Lect 1,Lect 2• Thurs: No class• Fri: Develop Team Solution , Detail sketches,

Member Sizes, Connections, Stability, Manufacture, Erection.

• Week 2

• Mon: Lect 3,Lect 4, Complete Scheme Design, Main member Sizing

• Tues: Complete Member Sizing, Present Team Solutions, Client Chooses Two Designs for Construction, Mega-teams Form, Connection Design and Detail

• Wed: Lect 5, Lect 6

• Thurs: No class (plan/begin building ?)

• Fri: Building Day 1

• Week 3

• Mon: Lect 7,Lect 8, Building Day 2

• Tues: Building Day 3

• Wed: Lect 9 (if required)Building Day 4,

• Thurs: No Class, Trial Erection PM & Load for Transport

• Fri: Transport to site 10.00am,Erect 11.00am Complete 13.00

follows

The Socratic Method

• The Socratic method encourages participants to reflect and think independently and critically.

• Socratic Dialogue is practiced in small groups with the help of a facilitator, so that self-confidence in one’s own thinking is enhanced and the search for truth in answer to a particular question is undertaken in common.

• The most important point in all of this is the autonomy in thinking: philosophical insights are gained only by those who engage in the process of knowing in their own mind.

• External influences shall do no more than stimulate independent thinking.

http://www.sfcp.org.uk/socratic_dialogue.htm

Q: What are Teachers?

A: A Mirror for the Student’s Thoughts.

Q: What are Students?

A: An Opportunity for the Teacher to Learn.

Assessment

• Learning Logs

• Peer Assessment

• 15 Min verbal presentation

• A0 Poster presentation

• Calculations via Sulis

• Exam

A0 outputs

Q: What am I?

A: I am a mirror

On being a mirror:

“It’s amazing how much Silence it takes”

.…MQ 2010