Field Experience / Factors that Influence Teaching

1. Field Experience / Factors that Influence Teaching

2. Discuss Factors that Influence Teaching • Introduce Field Experience • Assignment Agenda

3. The C&I 216 Students will understand the various factors that influence their teaching so that they can describe realistic actions they can take to control for the factors. Objective

4. Structure • Progressive Field Experience • 11 Weeks (1/26- 4/21) • Expectations • Professionalism • Communication • Hours • 53 hours • 30 lab hours • 15 hours of meetings / prep time • 5 hours of school events • 1 hour technology session Field Experience

5. Factors that influence teaching From The Act of Teaching. Cruickshank, Jenkins, Metcalf

6. Gender • Age and Experience • Personality • Beliefs • How do these factors influence how we teach? Personal Characteristics

7. Activity • Think of a favorite and a least favorite teacher from middle or high school. • Reflect on the personal characteristics (gender, age and experience, personality, beliefs) of each teacher. • How did those characteristics impact their teaching (or at least your perception of their teaching)? • Were they similar to the descriptions in the book? Personal Characteristics

8. The Way We Were Taught • The Way We Prefer to Learn • Way We Prefer to Teach • Knowledge of Subject Matter • Teaching Preparation • How do these factors influence how we teach? Experience and Preparation

9. Activity • Your principal has asked your advice before he makes his recommendation for hiring a teacher. The candidates are: • a young woman who has just received her bachelor's degree from a prestigious university with an excellent reputation for preparing teachers in pedagogical practice. However, this university is infamous for its lack of attention to preparing teachers in subject matter. • an older woman who has been teaching in another state for the past twenty years. In interviews, this woman has demonstrated a great deal of subject matter expertise but is also very set in her ways with regard to teaching methods. • Learning Style inventory Experience and Preparation

10. Learner Differences • Class and Classroom Size • Availability of Materials & Equipment • Time • Lesson Objectives • Prevalent Views of Teaching • How do these factors influence how we teach? Context

11. Activity • Think of a perfect lesson in your content area. • What changes would have to be made if the following things occurred: • You had 35 students in your class. • You had no computers. • You had a computer for each student. • You had 45 minute class periods. • You had 90 minute class periods. • You have a small classroom. • You have a large classroom.

12. Which of your personal characteristics (gender, age, personality, and beliefs) will be beneficial? • Are there personal characteristics that you will need to keep in mind as you teach? • How will your learning style impact your teaching? • Think of your favorite teachers, how did they teach? Will you try to replicate that style of teaching? • How would developmental diversity impact your teaching? • How have you seen time wasted in classrooms? Questions to ponder

13. The more aware you are of how personal characteristics, experience and preparation, and context impact your teaching, the better you will be able to guide your instruction by insight rather than relying on history, tradition, or compulsion. Big Picture

14. Bring a high school textbook chapter from your content area. We will use this for planning tasks over the next few weeks. • Bring a copy of several standards from your content area (could be national or state standards). Assignment for next class