Course Assistant as a learning fasilitator (ENG) fall 2019
Topic outline
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All the course material used during the second day is found here: the slides and the assignments along with the instructions. The submission boxes for your second assignment (reading, teaching observation, group work and reflection) are here as well.
The posters you made in your groups follow after the assignment.
For those who did not attend, the makeup assignment to compensate for the missed class is at the bottom of the page.
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The slides for day two sum up and extend your first reading assignment. The themes are approaches to learning and levels of thinking about teaching.
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Instructions:
Read chapter 5, "How do I teach?", pp. 39–49 from Hemminki, M. Leppänen, M. & Valovirta T. 2013. Get inspired! A guide for successful teaching.
Read the text so that you can discuss it with your peers both in your small group as well as in class. The title of the box and the title of the book are both links to the e-book. You can download a pdf file of the pages you want.
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Instructions:
Visit an exercise class where you act as an observer. If possible, visit a class of your group members or your course mates. Focus on the students and note down at least the following: What do the students do? How does the teacher motivate them? Add reflections and insights of your own. You Instructions:
Visit an exercise class where you act as an observer. If possible, visit a class of your group members or your course mates. Focus on the students and note down at least the following: What do the students do? How does the teacher motivate them? Add reflections and insights of your own. Give feedback to the teacher and then be specific, be positive, and give constructive feedback. Use the feedback form for this; it appears below this text after clicking on the title of this box. The form has generic instructions on points to pay attention to when observing a teaching session. You may follow these instructions to expand your observation, but remember that your task this time is to focus on student activity and how the teacher motivates the students. When you give feedback to your peer/the teacher, ask if he/she wants the feedback; you may also elaborate on your feedback verbally with them. Submit your feedback to this submission box with the name of the observed peer/teacher removed. This feedback is visible only to the course teachers.
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Instructions:
Arrange a meeting with your peer group
In the meeting, discuss the article and plan your teaching observation or discuss your observed session, as the case may be.
Submit your notes and reflections (one per group) to this submission forum: Group work (discussion area): What did you discuss? What did you observe? What did you think about the article? etc.
Remember to write your names on your group post.
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Read the slides for contact session 2 and write your thoughts on the two following topics:
- In order to know what your supervisor expects from you as a teaching assistant, interview your supervisor (teacher in charge of the course you are assisting). Write ½–1 page on this topic.
- With reference to the three levels of thinking about teaching, how can different teachers affect how students learn (surface or deep approach to learning)? Do you see any problems if a student uses only the surface approach or only the deep aproach
to study in all of their courses? How can students cope with learning subjects in the given amount of time? Address all of the questions in this topic. (Write 1–2 pages on this topic).
The topics are discussed in the first reading assignment as well. Your text should not exceed three pages in all.
- In order to know what your supervisor expects from you as a teaching assistant, interview your supervisor (teacher in charge of the course you are assisting). Write ½–1 page on this topic.
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