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Summer Session
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Course outline for Analysis of Teaching
Dr. Michael Orme
(Applied Psychology)
Overview: The course begins with an emphasis on teacher
behavior. It is further defined by focussing on teaching primarily as
a decision-making process. Teachers are required to make critical choices
between alternatives at every point in the teaching process. There are
a number of effective strategies and skills which can be developed to
improve the quality of decisions made at each stage.
As you might expect the different types of skills are brought
into play at each major stage in the teaching process. We will focus
on those strategies that are involved in the teaching act itself, and
which must be employed during teacher-pupil interaction.
Basic Skills: We will focus on decision-making strategies which
will help you:
1)
Recognize certain types of student responses that tell you
when certain kinds of decisions need to be made.
2) Increase the number of alternative techniques from which you
can choose, given decisions to be made about particular student responses.
3) Determine how and where to look for information that will
increase your chances of selecting the best alternative.
4)
Determine how to effectively test your procedures in ways that
will not interfere with on-going concerns about content and other procedures.
Such skills can thus be developed when they are broken down into specific
teaching techniques that can be concretely described, demonstrated and
practiced. We will consider major sets of teaching strategies in just this
way.
Strategy: The course will have a strong applied focus. We will
analyze video-tapes of teacher-student interaction in systematic ways which
will allow you to develop observation and analyses skills concerning speci-
fic teaching strategies. Research data concerning the effects of these
strategies on teacher and learner behavior from kindergarten through university
level classrooms will be presented.
The major course assignment will involve you in the actual
analysis of video-taped lessons. You can expect to develop new diagnostic
skills which will have an affect on your teaching in the regular classroom.
We will focus on teaching strategies involved in building, maintaining
and enhancing the student motivation, basic questioning techniques, partici-
pation and attention strategies, planning analysis and synthesis skills.
Point-form Outline of Major Topics
1.
Initial assumptions concerning applied psychology and teaching.
2.
Logic and tools of scientific inquiry.
3.
Teaching as an art and/or science.
4.
A continuous evaluation model of teaching.
5.
Planning and analysis skills.
6.
Teaching strategies.
7.
Micro-teaching.
8.
Analysis of teacher-student interaction.
9.
The learner and instruction.
