Teaching leadership development is adapting for the student. According to Joshua Blocks Edutopia article Teaching is adapting, he discusses a few of the Center for Teaching Quality campaign outcomes. The most significant thoughts on teachers responses are focusing on having a thoughtful voice in drawing in the student to the learning. The student is given equal power in the learning relationship. This development of the student voice creates critical thinking instead of rote learning. Facilitating in the classroom discussion by encouraging the students to discuss their belief with the class instead of the instructor to student discussion. This creates the multilevel learning where the students use resources and quotes to refer to their deeper inquiry. Resolving conflicts is not a teaching tool but a needed leadership skill. As in any area, conflicts occur. Resolving them properly requires patience and understanding. Taking time to hear what the conflict is, set a step for resolution and require the interaction of the students in conflict will ease the classroom tension teaching the students how to deal with conflicts in the future. Mentoring and modeling is student centered learning with the teacher guiding the inquiry. This approach is more time consuming than a quick answer or opinion but results in critical thinking. The modeling gives the student with an example or start. Consulting develops learning by peer/instructor evaluating the students teaching plan and developing a plan for instruction can be applied to the dental hygiene student.
There are more possibilities of adaptive teaching sources which the author of the original article Teaching is adapting encourages you to add is his review. You may add to his review by linking to
http://www.edutopia.org/blogs/teaching-is-adapting-joshua-block.
References
Block, J. (2014).Teaching is adapting. Retrieved from:
http://www.edutopia.org/blogs/teaching-is-adapting-joshua-block
This is an interesting article, Jody! Guiding, facilitating, modeling and mentoring are effective teaching methods. I see more adapting going on with teaching. We are adapting to teach our students by guiding them and allowing them to model and mentor. We are seeing that they can learn from each other and learn by collaborating along with the instructor's position as a guide and facilitator.
ReplyDeleteI think students are expected to leaders in today's classroom. The district talk this year has been about facilitating math talks. When we teach math now the teacher is not telling the students how to do it they are expecting the students to come up with their strategies and explain to the class how they came up with the answer. I believe this make students think and understand math better. In today's classroom the teacher is becoming more of the facilitator.
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