Famous Teaching Tales: Part One
What you'll learn
- When you have completed this course you will know some of the greatest teaching stories in the world, and you will be able to help your students understand who told the stories in the first place, and why.
Requirements
- You need to be able to play videos on your computer, and read .pdf files. That's all. Telling stories is a powerful method of teaching. Go for it!
Description
Telling stories is a most effective way to teach. Try telling your class a story every time you meet. Your students will look forward to your classes. In this course you will learn how five of the best loved tales came to be told for the first time, who told them, and why. These stories are from five different cultures. We begin in Garden of Eden and end up in Mordor. By listening to the five lectures and studying the lecture notes for each, you will come to understand how stories pass on wisdom from generation to generation. Several important aspects of what it means to be human are hinted at in these. five tales. Enjoy!
Who this course is for:
- If you are planning to be a teacher, or you are a teacher already, here are some great stories to tell your students, stories from five different cultures.
Course content
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Instructor
Professor Barton is a retired Associate Professor of Education who taught at Dalhousie University in Canada for more than a quarter of a century, helping undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students understand the profounder aspects of teaching. He taught a popular undergraduate course on 'The Methods of Famous Teachers' to 250 students. He made a habit of greeting each student individually as they entered the lecture hall with a summary of the life and work of the famous teacher, and did his best to illustrate that famous teacher's work with slides, videos and so forth.