In our particular Web Design course, we have lots of learners who attend full-time, a handful who attend two-days per week (depending on their availability), a mum of two who can only attend one day per week and others whose attendance is unpredictable for health and/or family reasons. Some learners start with excellent technical skills, others . . . → Read More: Tip 5: Gradually hand over control of learning
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In August this year, there’s an event being run by the Australian Web Industry Professionals Association and New Zealands Webstock event called FullCodePress: It’s a geek Olympics! Web teams take each other on to build a complete website for a non-profit organisation in 24 hours. No excuses, no extensions, no budget overruns. Wow… what a learning opportunity! Something . . . → Read More: 3 Hour Full Code Press Tip 3 was all about creating relevant and practical activities to learn through doing – and this is where the bulk of my preparation time is spent (well, the time that’s not assessing). But note that these are practical learning activities – not learning content. These days I hardly ever create learning content for my classes… . . . → Read More: Tip 4: Become a filter of relevant content for your learners Unless you’re teaching 4-unit Physics to a same-gender class in a pre-millenniallist sixth-day Baptist school, you’re guaranteed to have a bunch of very very different learners, each with very different background knowledge, different learning styles, social skills, time-management skills, life situations, cultural backgrounds etc. One of the hardest lessons I’m learning as a new teacher . . . → Read More: Teaching tip 2: Act on the needs of your learners What advice would you give to a new teacher working in a technology-related area? Maybe you’re a student who’s experienced the good and the bad? Or a teacher who’s experience has refined some tried-and-true “methods of instruction”? What advice would you give to a new teacher? Since starting out in education half-a-decade ago (sounds longer than 4 . . . → Read More: Teacher tip 1: Model learning not teaching |
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