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Corporate Training for FSTE (2014 Summer) Module 2: Understanding Students of the Self-financing Tertiary Education Sector in Hong Kong. Facilitator: Ms. Queenie A. Y. Lee Trained Counselor & Former Lecturer ( Psy ) of CIE, HKBU queenielee@yahoo.com. Warming-up. Say “ Hi ” !
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Corporate Training for FSTE (2014 Summer)Module 2: Understanding Students of the Self-financing Tertiary Education Sector in Hong Kong Facilitator: Ms. Queenie A. Y. Lee Trained Counselor & Former Lecturer (Psy) of CIE, HKBU queenielee@yahoo.com
Warming-up • Say “Hi”! • Share with 4 to 5 people your name, the institution you are teaching and your course area(s)
Getting to know you ^^ In about one minute, • Please tell us your name or how you would like to be called (e.g., your nickname) • Tell us ONE thing that is quite interesting/special about yourself
Question for your reflection: • What tactics have I employed at the beginning of the class to connect with you, the learners?
<Debriefing> • Personal Significance& Familiarity • It is worth the time and effort to get to know our students by their names (1) better rapport built and (2) more personal significance given to each • Letting students know a little more about you also helps building rapport and a humanisticclassroom Could you suggest other ways? : )
3 Foci of Session 1: Q: What do you expect to learn today? (CILO!!) • The characteristics and learning styles of different clusters of sub-degree students • Difficulties faced by the sub-degree students in their learning—Etiologies & Solutions • Different Types of Learners—Which Type are You?
(I) Group Discussion • In small groups (better if you group with teachers who serve the same cluster of students like you do), think of as many adjectives/descriptions as you can to describe the learning styles or characteristics of your students • Examples: • Creative • Weak in languages
<Debriefing> • Our students are NOTvery different from what we once were when we were younger • Better to take away our stereotypes and get to know our students as who they are
Usual Responses by Laypersons or even Teachers:(which don’t help at all!) 川漢背13歲殘障子日行29公里上學 <明報> 22/2/2014
What could be the problem(s) behind our students’ difficulties in learning ? • Tardiness • Wrong study methods (e.g. rote-memorization only) • Lack of supervision at home since young • Other family reasons or problems • Low in abilities in some academic areas & no sense of achievement for years • The mode of learning in secondary school • The mode of assessment (in internal & public exams) • Special Education Needs (SEN)
So What can We Do? • Change the mode of learning & assessment (e.g., group work, project work, role-play, presentation, video-making, collage) • Be more encouraging ourselves as teachers • Be more accepting of where our students are • Let them experience a sense of achievement (how to?)
(III) What Type of Learner are you? A Psychological Test • Complete the quiz given to you to find out what type of learner you are!
<Debriefing> • You are of different types when it comes to learning • Your students are the same so “one size cannot fit all!” • Try to differentiate your learning-and-teaching tasks
Sharing Effective T&L Approaches • In a group, share ONE teaching & learning activity you have used that • you think is effective for students’ learning • your students find interesting/useful/inspiring : )
Session 2: The Two Foci: • Ways to build rapport with the students to strengthen their motivation to learn • Effective classroom management strategies that can improve your teaching and students’ learning
Activity 1: How to begin a class in a more affectionate way? • Can you suggest 3 ways how you can begin a lecture to enhance students’ interest / human touch in the classroom? • Asking students what their day is like • …… • …… Tip: Respond to students’feelings if you can
<Debriefing> Advantages of showing your care to your students in the classroom? • You show them you are a human, with flesh and blood and feelings more understanding about your expectation / difficulties in teaching them • You demonstrate to them how to care about other people • You know more about your students as individuals, not just ‘objects’ better relationship better learning and teaching A brief note on “CARE”…… “You can pretend to care, but you can’t pretend to be there” ~ by Professor Sidney Chung Sheung-chi
Activity 2: How well do you connect with your students? • Refer to the handout “Teachers’ use of school connectedness strategies based on feeling positively connected to students” • Check those strategies you have been using • Check those strategies you hope you will be using Source: Vidourek, R. A., King, K. A., Bernard, A. L., Murnan, J., & Nabors, L. (2011). Teachers' Strategies to Positively Connect Students to School. American Journal of Health Education, March/April 2011, Vol. 42 (2)
Activity 3: Effective Classroom Management Strategies to help students learn effectively(A case-study approach) • Form yourselves in small groups of 3 to 4 people. • Imagine you are facing the situation described on the paper • Role-play the situation and the solution (5 min) • The scenario you encountered • The student’s behavior • Teacher’s (your) response • What you wish could be done to handle it better as you look back now
Summing-up some effective strategies…. • Get to know the nature of the problem bothering the student(s) concerned • Personal? • Interpersonal? • Family? • Ability? Motivation? • Financial? • Illness? (physical/psychological?) • Show you genuinely care • Admit you may not be able to solve all the problems by yourself / at one time • Tell the student(s) they can turn to you for support/advice
<我不原諒中國教育>一個90後對中國教育的批評和反思鍾道然著<我不原諒中國教育>一個90後對中國教育的批評和反思鍾道然著 易中天序 「受教育者喪失了自我,是因為我們的教育丟掉了根本。今日之中國,學校是工廠,院系是庫房,班級是車間,學生則是流水線上批量生產的齒輪和螺絲釘,只不過有的鍍金,有的鍍銀,有的壓了塑料膜。但指導思想和生產模式,則是一樣的。
目標, 是「望子成龍」; 標準, 是「成王敗寇」; 方法, 是「死記硬背」; 手段, 是「不斷施壓」,還美其名曰「壓力即動力」。
至於孩子們是否真實,是否善良,是否健康,是否快樂,沒有人去想。最需要「以人為本」的領域,卻最不拿人當人,這真是一個奇蹟!這就不能原諒!」至於孩子們是否真實,是否善良,是否健康,是否快樂,沒有人去想。最需要「以人為本」的領域,卻最不拿人當人,這真是一個奇蹟!這就不能原諒!」
Summing up……How to establish a conducive learning environment for our students? 「學校教育到了現在,真空虛極了。單從外形的制度上、方法上,走馬燈似的更變迎合,而于教育的生命的某物,從未聞有人培養顧及。 好像掘地,有人說四方形好,有人又說圓形好,朝三暮四地改個不休,而于池的所以為池的要素的水,反無人注意。 教育上的水是什么?就是情,就是愛。教育沒有了情愛,就成了無水的池,任你四方形也罷,圓形也罷,總逃不了一個空虛。」 《愛的教育》序 ~夏丏尊先生