1. Teaching & Learning EM 5125- Spring 2016 Week-end #2- Day 2 Feb. 13th

2. Advance Organizer for Class #2 Each student will (hopefully)….  Practice, iterate, collaborate, practice, iterate, collaborate  Identify key questions re: Christian T & L  Explore several models that help us to wrestle with teaching Christianly/Redemptively  Concept Map, “Bloom It,” and “Soar It”  Find rest in God Alone

3. My Soul Finds Rest Sandra McCracken Oh my God hear my cry From the depths I call out to you You give your mercy and light In the dark, in the wilderness Chorus My soul finds rest in God alone My salvation comes from him My soul finds rest, God is my home I will not be shaken, I will not be shaken. You are my shield and my strength Train my feet for this battle Our God is mighty to save I will wait, I will wait for him (Chorus) O my strength, I sing praise to you O my strength, I sing praise to you In joy or pain, I sing praise to you Night or day, I sing praise to you (Chorus)

4. My Soul Finds Rest

5. Resources: Vulnerability & Leaders

6. Leading Discussions Call on Participants by Name? “Talking is not the only way that students contribute to the discussion (134).” Brookfield, The Skillful Teacher “Most highly effective teachers do call on their students rather than just waiting for them to enter the discussion. But they do so with care (131).” Bain, What the Best College Teachers Do ChallengeStructure Healthy Learning Environment Support

7. Leading Discussions “When we can successfully stimulate our students to ask their own questions, we are laying the foundation for learning (31).” Bain, What the Best College Teachers Do

8. Leading Discussions: Questions & Critical Thinking What is the difference between an open question, a closed question, and a leading question? What kind of question is that question? How might we improve that question? What kind of question is that question?

9. Leading Discussions: Scaffolding Participation 1.Sentence Completion Exercise 2.Responding to Provocative Quotations 3.Circle of Voices (1 min each/Respond to Others only) 4.Circular Response (Build on previous person’s comments) 5.Conversational Roles (Reflective Analyst, Assumptions Checker, Theme spotter, etc) 6.Quotes to Affirm & Challenge (student brings one of each) 7.Snowballing (individual/pair/quartet, octets, class) --Share questions raised, differences noted, or new insights Stephen D. Brookfield, The Skillful Teacher

10. “Education for the sake of the kingdom isn’t a wholly safe undertaking (145).” Plantinga, Engaging God’s world: A Reformed vision of faith, learning, and living.

11. Shared Dishes

12. On Christian Teaching “Like the treasures of the ancient Egyptians, who possessed not only idols and heavy burdens, which the people of Israel hated and shunned, but also vessels and ornaments of silver and gold, and clothes, which on leaving Egypt the people of Israel, in order to make better use of them, surreptitiously claimed for themselves, similarly all branches of Pagan learning contain…. studies for liberated minds which are more appropriate to the service of the truth (64-65).”

13. Where Can Truth Be Found? Plundering the Egyptians

14. Where Can Truth Be Found? Christianity & Culture See H. Richard Niebuhr’s Christ & Culture and Donald Carson’s Christ & Culture Revisited

15. Where Can Truth Be Found? Biblical Epistemology humans seek to know & embrace truth Physical & Social Sciences Creational Revelation Biblical Revelation Biblical & Theological Studies Incarnational Revelation God is Truth & Reveals Truth

16. Meta Moment Think/Pair/Share To what extent might one’s answer to the question “Where can truth be found?” impact…..  Participants?  Process?  Curriculum?  Contexts?  Accountability?  Authority?

17. Concept Mapping Organizing Knowledge Principle #2 How students organize knowledge influences how they learn and apply what they know.

18. Concept Mapping HWL Principle #2

19. Concept Mapping Organizing Knowledge

20. Concept Mapping HWL Principle #2

21. Concept Mapping Organizing Knowledge Concept Mapping  Create  Categorize  Conceptualize Space  Color  Check Congruence  Contemplate  Connect Concepts  Iterate Create a concept map to help organize what we have learned from Bain and Ambrose about what the best college teachers do?

23. Bloom’s Taxonomy (1956) Revised by Lorin Anderson http://ww2.odu.edu/educ/roverbau/Bloom/blooms_taxonomy.htm

24. “Bloom in Action” Create – design, construct, hypothesize Evaluate - critique, judge, test Analyze - categorize, diagram, outline, compare Apply - demonstrate, implement Understand - interpret, paraphrase, illustrate Remember - identify, recite, list Anderson et al (2001) A Taxonomy for Learning, Teaching, and Assessing; Bloom et al. (1956) Taxonomy of Educational Objectives

25. Post-Class Forum #2 T & L Meta 1)Use the New Bloom’s Taxonomy to name the different levels of thinking that we have done this weekend. 2) Identify 2-3 methods, models, or Christian frameworks that challenged you to do significant “higher level thinking” and explore why this might have been. 3) Evaluate 1 of those methods, models or Christian Frameworks and create a customized way to use it in your own T & L.

26. Assignments for T & L Weekend #3 (March. 11-12th) Due Tues. Feb. 16th Post-Class Forum #2 Due Fri. March. 11 th 1)HLW- Ch. 4 Assign. 2)HLW- Ch. 5 Assign. 3) Bain- Assignment on Ch. 4-5 4) Exploratory Reading Post 5) Prepare “Shared Dish”

27. Motivation to Learn HWL Principle #3 Value 1)Attainment Value (Mastery) 2) Intrinsic Value 3) Instrumental Value (Extrinsic Rewards) Expectancies 1)Outcomes 2)Efficacy Principle #3 Students’ motivation generates, directs, and sustains what they do to learn. Class Activity What factors seem to motivate two people who are very close to you?

28. Motivation & Creative Tension Theological Underpinnings?