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Is Teaching An Art, Science, or Craft

Is Teaching An Art, Science, or Craft. Art. Be very creative Relational between students – feeling and empathetic Teaching is expressive – impulsive Teaching is intuitive Teaching is a very social activity Motivation Sublime and unexplainable Not routine or formulaic. Scientific.

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Is Teaching An Art, Science, or Craft

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  1. Is Teaching An Art, Science, or Craft

  2. Art • Be very creative • Relational between students – feeling and empathetic • Teaching is expressive – impulsive • Teaching is intuitive • Teaching is a very social activity • Motivation • Sublime and unexplainable • Not routine or formulaic

  3. Scientific • Put theory into practice • We have research on what works and what does not work, so we can apply that to teaching • Science is creative and is social construction • Some teaching is procedural that we can use • You can measure learning, where they begin and what they learn • You can evaluate or assess • Reliability of methods • Empirical nature of public accountability and civic responsibility

  4. Craft • There is a historical aspect to teaching – it can be modeled – what is good teaching • A certain aspect of technique • The process and skills can be learned like basket weaving • Balance between art and science – having the knowledge but also the relational aspect that helps us to know how to meet the needs of students • We work within a certain framework, but we have freedom within the framework for how we teach • We have tools, like a craft that can be shared • Motivation – you have to know each student individually to know where they need to go in their learning

  5. What role does technology play? • Offers different modalities for teaching and learning – audio, visual • Offers choice • Distance learning • Integrates us to the rest of the world – and this is a way of life in our larger world and this is one medium • Allows us to tap into many more resources than we have in a traditional classroom • Access to people in rural areas – connect us across a hundred miles or so • Technology is a tool - the art that we know can be translated across media • Motivation • Challenge – it’s not easy. • PCK – PTCK – Attend to the learning hierarchy of the content, but also the learning trajectory of the technology – not always aligned. • Sustainability • Requires us to become literate in new ways – 21st Century literacy

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