How to teach others - What You need to know
What you'll learn
- Assessment for Learning - Formative- and Summative Assessment
- The importance of relational learning
- Teaching technique: Feed back, Feed up and Feed forward
- Unified foundation of knowledge
- Peer assessment and Self assessment
- Preunderstanding - Meet the students were they are
- How to ask pedagogy questions
- The importance of reflection and evaluation and how to use it
- The importance of varied forms of learning
- The importance of metalanguage
- Teaching technique: Looking for answers in the right places
- Teaching technique: Discussion models - Venn Diagram and Circulating Beehive
- Teaching technique: No hands up and Collective answers
- Lesson planning - How and Why?
- The Importance of Source Criticism
- Teaching technique: Low-Impact Treatment
- The Importance of Student Participation
- How to Construct and Correct Tests - Formative Method
- Collegial Cooperation and Interdisciplinary Learning
- High Expectations and Cognitive Challenges
- Project/Exercise 1: Plan your own course, class or project
- Project/Exercise 2: Plan your own lesson in connection to project 1
- Project/Exercise 3: Evaluate Project 1 and 2
Requirements
- No previous knowledge required but an interest in pedagogy and didactics will help you grow faster
Description
This three part course will give you a good overview of pedagogy methods, theories, tools and practical tips regarding teaching others, in real life or on the webb.
The three courses will have different types of orientations and projects, but will also be closely connected with each other and have projects that will help you evolve as a teacher. I must emphasize that you will have the best experience and progression if you take the courses in chronological order.
Here is an overview of the three courses.
How to teach others - What you need to know - Part 1/3:
Assessment for Learning- Formative and Summative Assessments
Relational learning
Feed up, Feed back, Feed forward
Unified foundation of knowledge
Peer assessment and Self assessment
Preunderstanding - Meet the students where they are
How to ask pedagogy questions
Project 1/3 - Planning your own project or course
How to teach others - What you need to know - Part 2/3:
The importance of reflection and evaluation - and how to use it
The importance of varied forms of learning
The importance of metalanguage
Discussion models - Venn Diagram and Circulating Beehive
No hands up and collective answers
Lesson planning - How and Why?
Looking for answers in the right places
Project 2/3 - Plan your own lesson
How to teach others - What you need to know - Part 3/3:
The importance of source criticism
Low-impact treatment
The importance of student participation
How to construct and correct tests - Formative method
Collegial cooperation and interdisciplinary learning
High expectations and cognitive challenges
The Project 3/3 - Evaluation of project 1 and 2 - Try it out and get constructive feedback
If you find any of the videos especially interesting I will be happy to make a more detailed class on that subject. There is always much more to say about all of this, but this three part course will give you a solid base to stand on regarding pedagogy theories, methods and practical use.
Who this course is for:
- Aspiring teachers who want to learn more about pedagogy and didactics
- Teachers who want to expand their knowledge base regarding pedagogy and didactics
- Teachers who want a better classroom climate
- Lecturer who want a better contact with their audience
- Everyone that want to teach something to someone else
Instructor
Niklas Kleberg works full time as a teacher and has a masters degree in pedagogy from Gothenburg University and Academy of Music and Drama in Gothenburg. For 16 years he has been teaching around 350 students a year in all ages, in the subjects of music, crafts, drama and history. He is also a voice coach and a choir conductor.
Niklas is also teaching computer science and development, and is also specialized in research regarding formative- and summative evaluation of students knowledge. (How to use evaluation to better understand and help students learning process) As a teacher and programer he developed interactive classrooms for musical students.
After several years of education in natural science and programing, he decided to study music full time, first at a folk high school and then moving on to the Academy of Music and Drama - Gothenburg University.