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Spaghetti with(out) the Sauce

Spaghetti with(out) the Sauce. Presentation and Communication in a Learner-Centered Classroom. Session Leader: Dr. Rosalind Warner, College Professor Political Science, Okanagan College University of British Columbia Okanagan Centre for Teaching and Learning Annual Conference

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Spaghetti with(out) the Sauce

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  1. Spaghetti with(out) the Sauce Presentation and Communication in a Learner-Centered Classroom Session Leader: Dr. Rosalind Warner, College Professor Political Science, Okanagan College University of British Columbia Okanagan Centre for Teaching and Learning Annual Conference “Enhancing Student Learning”

  2. Which would YOU prefer? Or…

  3. Which would YOU prefer? Or…

  4. Which would YOU prefer? Or…

  5. Communication

  6. Content of the message… • Form of the message…

  7. What is different @ the Form? • Shorter • sentences • Pauses & • emphasis • Repetition • & use of • three

  8. The Form of the Message matters “We shall fight on the seas and oceans,We shall fight…in the air…We shall fight on the beaches,We shall fight on the landing grounds,We shall fight in the fields and in the streets,We shall fight in the hills;We shall never surrender.” ~Winston Churchill

  9. The Bullet List • 7 ounces finely chopped bittersweet or semisweet chocolate • 4 tablespoons unsalted butter • 1 1/2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract

  10. Content: Using Metaphors & Similes “Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.” ~Ronald Reagan • “I’ll be floating like a butterfly and stinging like a bee.” –~MuhammedAli “If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” ~Isaac Newton

  11. Content: Using Comparisons & Contrasts Democracies Have: Non-Democracies have: Fewer participants Arbitrary rule No accountability • Pluralism • The rule of law • Accountability

  12. Contrasts: Even Better! “Those who cast the votes decide nothing, those who count the votes decide everything.” ~Joseph Stalin “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” ~Neil Armstrong “It is more blessed to give than to receive.” ~The Bible

  13. Typical Scholarly Approach • Terminology • Concept & • Application • Critical & • Higher • Order • Thinking • What is the meaning of spaghetti?

  14. Content: People Learn Concretely

  15. How is this Learner-Centred? • My Evolution as a Teacher/Learner • How I see ‘Lecturing’

  16. Questions? Comments? Rosalind Warner rowarner@okanagan.bc.ca Okanagan College Institute for Learning and Teaching: http://ilt.okanagan.bc.ca/ Blog: http://rozwarner.wordpress.com/

  17. Over to you (Handout)…. • List three things that you saw me do or say in this presentation that improved the communication • Write the most complex/long winded or difficult sentence you can think of from your discipline… • Now simplify it as much as you can • Convert the following bullet list into a narrative or sequence • Make comparative sentences from each the following • Develop a question that might be a basis for an entire lecture in your discipline “The lure of imaginary totality is momentarily frozen before the dialectic of desire hastens on within symbolic chains.” Making Monstrous: Frankenstein, Criticism, Theory, by Fred Botting (Manchester University Press, 1991)

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