October 6th, class reflection for session 2.

Key terms:

• A teacher is: Info dispenser, producer, keeper.
• Code switching.
• Three types of learners.
• An effective schemata (Previous knowledge) -Affective Filter -Anxiety Level -
  Safe learning environment.
• Scaffold.
• Not real teaching, just practicing = Teacher’s comfort zone.
• Checking understanding.
• Critical and creative teachers who make questions to their students and
  make them critical thinkers.
• Postmethod (Kuma) talks about the power classroom: make changes,
  teachers have the power and they can evaluate specific learning episodes.
• Learning styles (50% visual, 30% kinesthetic and 20% auditory) should be
  taken into account for teaching practices and student’s needs.  Example:

    Topic: Swim.

    Visual aid: videos, pictures, posters, draws.                 

    Kinesthetic: move arms around.    

    Auditory: pronunciation.

                              

                                                                                

                                                                                                                                              

• Didactic bedrocks: Implementation of digital resources, class activities through
  21st century skills, teaching through technology. It is a tool.
• Consolidating professional learning community among teachers,
  providing feedback along the classes process, new ways to connect with the kidsand to challenge them.
• Teachers must adapt into students’ needs and ways they learn, the network teacher,
  to solve problems, connecting the people around the world as global citizens.
• Real relationships between teacher and administrator, teachers must feel
  appreciated by the surrounding society: How can we all together help teacher?
• Teachers are the center of educational system, classroom are as dynamics as
  the world is, characteristics according to new millennium.
• Experiential Learning: Technology, human interaction and texts.

• Grammar Focus- forms: Let them to work, let them do it. With the verb let we do not use to.

• Generation gaps: Students are generation Z  (born on 2000-present) and teachers
  are X (1965-1980) or Y (1981-1999), so the learning styles are

really different and we have to adapt classes to the student’s needs.

• Finland video: Experiential learning, teachers are appreciated in society,
  they all should be magisters and they feel proud + pride for the support of the community.
• What is didactics? Is the art of teaching, make easier for students to understand
  the content, born- gifted, it has two objects of study: The teaching learning process

and the teaching learning technique and methods. Relationship between teaching and learning.