An Instructor’s Options

1. An Instructor’s Options Frank T. Stritter, Ph.D. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

2. An Instructor's Options

3. Goals • Describe various options • Describe instructor’s role • Choose formats creatively

4. Clusters of an Instructor’s Skills, Strategies and Attitudes • Organizing and explaining material • Creating an environment for learning • Helping learners become autonomous • Reflecting on and evaluating teaching

5. Instructional Strategies • Formats • Media

6. Large Group • Lecture • Lecture / Discussion

7. Orients Directs Explains Compares Narrates Uses audiovisuals Varies activities Is lively Closes The Lecturer

8. Seminar Learner - centered Small Group

9. The Leader • Sets task • Informs • Challenges • Releases tension • Elicits • Supports

10. Tutorial

11. The Tutor • Instructs learner how to prepare • Presents content via materials • Meets with learner • Questions learner • Classifies response and provides feedback • Determines next question • Ends meeting

12. Individual

13. The Instructor • Negotiates outcomes • Agrees upon tasks • Develops bench marks • Allows reasonable flexibility • Evaluates comprehension • Provides feedback when necessary

14. Internship Learner research Assistant Experiential

15. The Supervisor • Diagnoses learner’s need • Negotiates responsibilities/expectations • Performs, observes, assigns • Debriefs • Provides feedback • Ensures time to reflect • Summarizes and closes

16. Type of Participation People Remember 90% of what they do Hearing, Saying, 70% of what they say or write Seeing, and Doing 50% of what they hear and see Visual 30% of what they see Verbal 20% of what they hear or read Learning Pyramid Practice by Doing the Real Thing Simulate an Experience Prepare and Deliver a Presentation Participate in a Discussion Group Watch a Demonstration View a Multimedia Presentation Watch Video View a Still Picture Hear Presentation Read

17. In Summary: • Large Group • Small Group • Tutorial • Individualized • Experiential

18. In Conclusion: • No one best strategy • More than one format • Each learner has specific needs • Adapt to what learner needs • Each instructor has strengths • Each instructor should be assigned based on strengths

19. Stephen Covey • “Successful people begin with the end in mind.”

20. General Colin Powell “There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure.”

21. Confucius says: • “What I hear, I forget. • What I see, I remember. • What I do, I learn!”

22. Coach Vince Lombardi • “Practice does not make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect.”

23. Coach Joe Young • “No one cares how much you know until they knowhow much you care.”

24. Coach Paul Bryant • “I’m just a plow hand from Arkansas, but I have learned how to hold a team together. You have to lift some up and calm others down until you have just one heartbeat. That’s what it takes to make each one a winner”

25. Peter E. King “ Those who can – do, Those who think that others can also – teach.”

26. President Ruth Simmons If it hadn’t been for my teachers, my God, I don’t know what would have happened to me.”

27. Mitch Albom “Have you ever had a teacher - one who saw you as raw, but precious jewel, that with wisdom could be polished to a proud shine? “

28. Albert Camus • “Without you, without the affectionate hand you extended to me, without your teaching, and your example, none of this would have happened.”