How to teach others - What You need to know

Welcome to this video regarding assessment for learning. In this first part of my series on ”How to teach others” we will take a closer look on how to use assessment for learning, instead of using assessment of learning. There is a big difference there, and I will be your humble guide on this journey of learning.

It is now time for my second video regarding ”How to teach others”. Last time we touched on the subject ”Assessment for learning” witch in my opinion is an essential aspect for any teacher to have a good understanding and knowledge about.

This time though I will talk about something that is also a very important aspect of teaching others. Namely ”Relational learning”.

And as last time we will begin with a question: ”What is relational learning?” or as it also can be called ”Relatoinal pedalogy”

In this video we will get more hands on, on how to use formative methods in an educational setting.

As we previously has concluded, both the student and the teacher gets much better results if the work together thoughts a common goal. It is in the formative dialogue between the student and the teacher that you really can get theses good results. A handy educational tool to accomplish this is different types of feedback.

A unified foundation of knowledge - what a grand sentence. But never the less it is very important. In short we could say that this is a educational tool to answer the question ”why?”.

Research show that if the students and teachers have regular conversations regarding knowledge it will greatly benefit the results.

In this video we will get to know the methods of peer assessment and self assessment a little better.

As always we will start at the beginning. What is peer assessment. Does it mean that the teacher just takes a brake from teaching to let the students assess each others performance instead. No that is not how i works but the students will have a big role in this form of assessment, as they always should in their own learning process.

This video will take a different form than the previous videos. I will adress the fact that your students all will have different forms of preunderstanding when they enter you classroom or your online course.

In this video I will tell you a pedagogy story that might spark some new thoughts and discussions.

In this first project we will explore the practice of constructing a new course, class or project together.

We will then use this project in part 2 of this course where we will break it down in to smaller parts or lessons.

In the recourse section for this class you will find two writable pdf documents. You will have to download at least the one labeled ”How to teach others - Kleberg teachings project 1”

When you have opened this document it will together with the project video, help you complete the first project in this three part course. The second document in the recourse section has already been filled in by me to give you an example on how to use it properly.

We will also, as previously said, use our new document in the next project in How to tech others part 2. You will surely edit and change some things in this document as we go forward on our journey through pedagogy and didactics, and that is how we grow as teachers.

All the best

Niklas

A short didactic interlude between part 1 and part 2.

Welcome back to this three part course with the title: How to teach others - what you need to know.

We all know that we have to reflect and evaluate to evolve in any type of situation. It is when we take a step back in think about what we are doing and how we are doing it, that we get in touch with our metakognitive selfes.

We have to meet the students where they are in their learning process and acknowledge that we are different in so many ways.

Another fancy word often used regarding pedagogy and teaching is metalanguage.

But what does it mean and why do we want to use it?

I have mentioned the group and/or classroom climate several times now, and that is because it is a vital component to reach as many students as possible.

In this video I will therefor speak a little about how you can improve on the discussions and overall group learning in the class. When you want the students to converse around a specific topic you could use different kinds of discussion models to help them along the way. I will give you a couple of examples in this video.

In this video I will adress two different methods that will help your students to be more outspoken in discussions in your classroom or in som other form of gathering.

It is extremely important that both the students and the teacher knows why the task at hand is important, how it will be assessed, what is expected of both teacher and student and how it can be connected to current curriculum.

This is a short pedagogy story intended to make you think and maybe discuss with colleagues later on.

In this second project we will break down our new course from project one into smaller parts/lessons.

In the recourse section for this class you will find two writable pdf documents. You will have to download at least the one labeled ”How to teach others - Kleberg teachings project 2”

When you have opened this document it will together with the project video, help you complete the second project in this three part course. The second document in the recourse section has already been filled in by me to give you an example on how to use it properly.

We will also, as previously said, use our documents from part 1 and 2 in the final project in How to tech others part 3. You will surely edit and change some things in all of the documents as we go forward on our journey through pedagogy and didactics, and that is how we grow as teachers.

All the best

Niklas

A short didactic interlude between part 2 and part 3.

Welcome back to the final part of this three part course with the title: How to teach others - what you need to know.

In this day and age we do not have to look far to see that the flow of information has become so vast and fuzzy that it is often hard to see what is true or false. Often we find our selfs somewhere in between in that famous gray area.

Because of this it has never been more important to use source criticism in our schools but also in our daily lives

It is time to talk a little about Low impact treatment. This is something that has been more and more topical during the recent years. In my experience I must say that this method, as all methods, does not solve every situation. But often it is a good mental strategy to use when approaching a problematic situation.

For anyone that has ever spent time teaching others this does not come as a surprise. All research done in this subject shows that if students are part of their own learning process, they will get much better results.

I spoke a little about this in previous videos but will go more in to depths on this one.

But how do I construct test with a formative approach?

Collegial cooperation is a key aspect of teacher professional development and good way to increase teacher knowledge.

I believe that high expectations favors the students development together with clear instructions, formative teachings methods, good guidance and a good classroom climate. But is it more to it than that?

It is now time for the last project for this three part series regarding How to teach others.

In the first project you got to create you own project or course .

In the second one you got to plan a new lesson closely connected to the first project.

It is now time to evaluate how it all worked out. And do not worry if you have not yet had the time to test out the lesson. You can do this project anyway as a good exercise for whats to come in the future.

In the recourse section for this class you will find several writable documents in different formats. You will have to download at least the one of these documents to be able to complete this project.

When you have opened the document it will together with the project video, help you complete the third and final project in this three part course.

All the best

Niklas

Final thoughts regarding How to teach others - What you need to know.