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Jacqueline Korir Post 1

• 1 August 2020, 8:06 PM

The course content

This course was very good but I wish there could also be one that focuses on University Lecturers as teachers vis a vis Primary and Secondary although I know some teaching methodologies are similar. Good experience

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Sandra Amos Post 2 in reply to 1

• 3 August 2020, 9:41 AM

Although the materials focus on primary and secondary teaching, the ideas can be used by any teacher. If you use the sorts of activities in the materials when teaching student teachers, they will find it easier to use them in their teaching in school. This is what we called modelling. Modelling is an important strategy in teacher training. In the webinar, Patricia shared how she does this with her students. She teaches large classes in university and gave details of how she made her sessions student centred and interactive. If you didn't have the chance to attend the webinar, you can watch it on YouTube. There is a link to in the week 3 information. 

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Sabankilie DARPAK SOUGUE Post 3 in reply to 2

• 3 August 2020, 7:52 PM

I perfectly agree with you Sandra. I guess it will be pretty much easier to tailor this content to higher eduction level since you are dealing with grown ups and they actually understand what you are aiming at in any given situation you try to them in.  I guess you just need to reinforce the modelling skills as point out here. Thanks.

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Michele Deane Post 4 in reply to 3

• 9 August 2020, 2:57 PM

I agree, Sabankilie. Tool 10 of the TESSA toolkit for Teaching Practice Supervisors provides a few ideas on how we can model interactive teaching/learning. 

TESSA strategies are not particularly targeted to primary or secondary school. I use them profusely when I lead TESSA (and non TESSA) workshops. I always make sure that at the end of the activity we step back and reflect : What did we learn? How did we learn? What enabled us to learn? Why? Can this be adapted to classroom teaching? How?