Event record: classroom that cultivate the new generation - competency in daily life
Time: August 30, 2022
Location: Tunghai University
Speaker: Professor Po-Han Wu from Tunghai Graduate Institute of Education
▍Design: Class content, activities, and evaluation
Bloom's taxonomy cognitive domains includes memorization, comprehension, application, analysis, evaluation, and creation. Of those cognitive domains, memorization, comprehension and application are lower-order thinking skills, while analysis, evaluation and creation are higher-order thinking skills. Professors wish to help students develop higher-order thinking skills, however, which type of thinking skill do you think traditional paper exams are evaluating?
"Core Competency" covers the knowledge, skills and attitude required for a person to adapt to their current life and to face their future. Competency-based course design should focus on the integration of learning and life. Real life problems often cannot be solved by a single disciplinary or expertise, therefore what is taught should not be limited by single discipline or skill. Competency-based courses have different course designs, and professors also have different roles. The professors are the designers of the students' learning experience, they design the learning experience, integration and reflection on their learning experience.
▍If a professor taught a lot, does that mean students have learnt a lot?
Professor Wu promoted the professors at the event to think back to bad experiences in class and share those experiences. What kind of class was it? What were they learning? How did the professor conduct the learning activities? After thinking about the worst experience, think about the hardest to forget and best learning experience.
The acquisition of long lasting, genuine happiness usually happens when talent, interest or hard work is satisfied and accomplished. Professor and students have opposite attention levels. Professor would usually put the key information in the middle of the course, and students might not have paid attention. If you add some activities, such as storytelling, little games or chanting can help recapture the attention of students. The activities and conversation will deepen the memory and expand experience.
Fun courses usually are those where「professor taught less, students learnt deeper」. The memory will be profound and good if let the students take action, experience and learn, then output.
▍Teaching sharing
Tip 1: Guide learning and organized classroom activities through questions
Tip 2: Let students ask questions to promote thinking among students, the professor can then integrate and lead back to the course content.
※ Student don’t necessarily need to raised their hand if they have questions, they can also use other actions such as touching their ear to express they want to answer this question.
Tip 3: Integrate the content in the question and ask students to answer
Tip 4: Set learning goals, choose learning experience, organize learning experience (design learning experience), evaluate the learning result
Tip 5: Offer students insight into the reason and importance of learning the topic
Tip 6: How to promote learning attention - 321 (apply near the end of the class)
Write down 3 things you learned today
Write down 2 things you were confused about
Write down 1 specific action you are taking to learn or practice