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Teaching Art as Teaching “Heart” Kevin M. Johnston kmj@msu.edu

Teaching Art as Teaching “Heart” Kevin M. Johnston kmj@msu.edu. FIND IT: Who Are YOU as a Teacher? FEED It: How Do We Grow As Teachers? FREE It: How Is WHAT You Do, WHO You Are?. A Teaching Philosophy?. My students are……… As a teacher, my students think I am…. “Wanted: Good Faculty”.

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Teaching Art as Teaching “Heart” Kevin M. Johnston kmj@msu.edu

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  1. Teaching Art as Teaching “Heart”Kevin M. Johnstonkmj@msu.edu • FIND IT: Who Are YOU as a Teacher? • FEED It: How Do We Grow As Teachers? • FREE It: How Is WHAT You Do, WHO You Are? The Heart of Teaching 2007 ITAOri

  2. A Teaching Philosophy? • My students are……… • As a teacher, my students think I am… The Heart of Teaching 2007 ITAOri

  3. “Wanted: Good Faculty” Talented History GS ISO a MENTOR. Intelligent, hardworking doctoral student with teaching and research experience seeks interested History faculty for professional guidance. Ph.D. in SOUTHERN HISTORY preferred. Sincere interest and honest care about the state of the profession, higher education, teaching, and research necessary. Some time commitment required, but experience guaranteed to benefit both.

  4. Faculty/Student Interaction • What Do Faculty Expect From Students? • What do Students Expect From Faculty? • What’s Causing the Problem? (What is the problem? Incivility?)

  5. Faculty Behavior • What would your students say about you as a teacher? (Does it matter?) • How are your opinions of your teaching abilities reflected (or not) in your evaluations? • If there’s a difference? Why?

  6. “Faculty Behaving Badly”http://tap.msu.edu/PDF/tt22.pdf • “Might not faculty misconduct in teaching provoke [the] growing problem of student misbehavior in the classroom [Braxton and Brayer, 1999 (brackets mine)]?”

  7. The 7 Categories of Intolerable Teaching Behavior • Condescending Negativism • Poor Planning • Immorality • Uncommunicated Course Details • Unfair Grading • Poor Hygiene • Uncooperative Cynicism

  8. What Do Students Say Are The Most Irritating Teacher Behaviors?http://tap.msu.edu/thoughts/tt10.pdf Is there a theme that underlies the following? • Shows up late for class • Doesn’t show up for office hours • Doesn’t get to know students • Makes students feel stupid • Talks to the board • Doesn’t follow the syllabus - University of Tennessee, Knoxville FYS 1999

  9. Teaching “Heart” (?) What Do You Want To Be? What Do You Want To Do? How Will You Get There? The Heart of Teaching 2007 ITAOri

  10. FIND Your Teaching Heart Who Are YOU as a Teacher? - Facilitator? - Coach? - Leader? - Dictator? The Heart of Teaching 2007 ITAOri

  11. FEED Your Teaching Heart How Do We Grow as Teachers? “Listening is Teaching. Talking is mostly Learning.” - Alice Dreger - Taking Risks - “Giving up the chalk” - “Shut Up and TEACH” The Heart of Teaching 2007 ITAOri

  12. FREE Your Teaching Heart How is WHAT you do, WHO you Are? • “Teaching is Reaching” • “Teaching is to Create Space” - Parker Palmer (1999) The Heart of Teaching 2007 ITAOri

  13. Creating Space • What Opens Your Mind? • What Opens Your Students’ Minds? (What if We Can’t?) The Heart of Teaching 2007 ITAOri

  14. “Teachers become students, students [teaching] peers, all working to achieve a greater understanding of their subject within a real world context” - Parker Palmer [brackets mine] The Heart of Teaching 2007 ITAOri

  15. “The Universe Will Respond to What You Project” - Wayne Dyer You Have Tremendous Power to … (But Be Careful) The Heart of Teaching 2007 ITAOri

  16. The best teachers (should) forget something every time they teach… Not WHAT they know, but… …HOW they know it. The Heart of Teaching 2007 ITAOri

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