Harnessing Cognitive Principles To Elevate Your Teaching - E127
Episode description
This week, we are helping you harness the power of cognitive principles to elevate your teaching practice. In this final instalment of our book study, we'll explore how we can leverage all of our learning from Daniel Willingham's book "Why Don't Students Like School" to help us become the best teachers that we can be.
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- Why Don't Students Like School by Daniel Willingham
- How To Get Students Thinking - E110
- Strategies for Enhancing Memory & Critical Thinking - E113
- Learning That Transfers - E117
- Supporting Different Types of Learners - E121
- How Technology Influences Student Thinking - E125
- Chapter 10 key ideas:
- We're taking a break for the summer and we'll be back August 15th
- New book study coming up in the 2023-2024 school year: Grading for Equity by Joe Feldman
- Let's apply all of the cognitive principles in this book to our teaching practices!
- Guiding Principle: “Teaching, like any complex cognitive skill, must be practiced to be improved"
- Teaching is very demanding of working memory
- New teachers - learning factual knowledge, pedagogical content knowledge, procedures etc and it takes time!
- Experienced teachers also go through growth and learning with new courses
- Deliberate practice:
- Pick one small skill, select a specific goal
- Get feedback
- Push yourself outside of your comfort zone
- It's mentally demanding... and not fun
- Practice indirect skills
- Lots of great resources: Jim Knight, Google Certified Coach
- Try a teaching sprint - based off the book Sprint by Jake Knapp
- Make space for relaxation & down time as you go through changes
- Getting & giving feedback:
- Record and watch yourself teaching
- Watch other teacher videos together
- Watch each others videos & give feedback
- Bring it back to the classroom
- Improvement takes time & change needs to be done purposefully
- Goal setting needs follow up
- Take care of yourself as you work on teaching practices!
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