Transformational Teaching

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1. Slide 1: Transformational Teaching U-Learn October 2008 1 Tony Ryan
2. Slide 2: In this session • The next few years of life on Earth?? • Four critical skillsets for transformational teachers
3. Slide 3: Some roles for the Transformational Teacher •The Energiser •The Ethicist •The Entrepreneur •The Environmentalist
4. Slide 4: Three intro tasks 1. Introduce yourself to four people who are sitting nearby 2. Ask (at least) one of them about the most inspiring teaching moment he / she has had in his / her life 3. Recognise how this memory can alter your mood / energy
5. Slide 5: New paradigms of life and learning • Lifespan is extending (for the white Western world) - 55 to 78 years in the past century • An increasingly electronic environment - more mobile phones and credit cards in China in the past year than in all of the world in the past ten years • The Zeitgeist of ‘lifelong learning’ - Learning communities; Learning cities; online Learning worlds; Learning nations • Significant financial reframings over the next few years - with strong implications for all future consumption patterns
6. Slide 6: We Need A Transformational Humanity • The next 8 years are the most critical in human history • We will need people who are solution-focused • We will need people with a very different kind of mind - creative, inspiring, compassionate • We will need people who believe they can make a difference!
7. Slide 7: •Although it’s important, the key question is not: What do we need to teach? • The key question is: “Who do we need to be?”
8. Slide 8: THE ENERGISER
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12. Slide 14: How do you (could you) unleash that ‘Matt dancing’ type of energy in your school??!
13. Slide 16: We need ‘hot’ personalities because... • * The skillset required for consistently engaging students (onclass or online) is hugely complex • * Teachers are the single most critical influence on student success in learning • * Teachers strongly influence family and community values / attitudes • * Schools create the future
14. Slide 17: Thinking patterns that create energy?? • Your thinking is a critical influence on your physical / emotional / spiritual energy • Teaching is a mirror - your attitude is reflected back to you • Regulate your self-talk (and show students how to do this) • Consult with your Self
15. Slide 18: Your own energy • When and how do you get ‘energy’ from teaching? What are your real reasons for being involved with education? • How consistently do you engage in positive dialogue about education (100%, 90%, 80% of the time)? How do you consciously generate your own energy?
16. Slide 19: THE ETHICIST
17. Slide 20: Factors that have created an ethics focus in education?? 1. Societal / political responses to some Net Gen children (and their parents) eg how to respond to ‘rights cf responsibilities’ 2. Increasing focus on emotional intelligence 3. Virtual environments (avatars; contract cheating) that test the limits of human values...?
18. Slide 21: Z Gen (0 to 15??) of 120 • Life expectancy • Smaller families (or even a single spoilt child) • Cocooned due to safety factors • Twitch thinking speed with consistent online use • Highconsumption patterns - their bedroom material weighs approx 20 times that of a 1958 bedroom’s material •A new ‘silent’ generation - a revisit to
19. Slide 22: Some key values for education?? 1. Care and Compassion 2. Doing your best 3. Honesty and Trustworthiness 4. Integrity 5. Respect 6. Responsibility 7. Tolerance
20. Slide 23: Practical applications • Explicitly clarify and promote the values that underpin your school and classroom/s • Build these values into your unit planning • Implement one extra-curricular ‘ethical’ program per term • Engage students in dialogue processes that encourage their application of the values
21. Slide 24: Academic Controversy 1. Form into teams of 4, and appoint two ‘yes’ and two ‘no’ representatives 2. The statement is: You must always do your best at all times, without exception. 3. In your pairs, brainstorm all of the arguments that support your side.
22. Slide 25: And then..... 4. Present your arguments to the other pair 5. Now change sides, and present the other perspective 6. Drop the yes and no, and determine your group’s final response to the topic 7. Mark your group’s final decision on a Yes / No line, and justify your stance to others
23. Slide 26: THE ENTREPRENEUR
24. Slide 27: Attracting the entrepreneurs to teaching • Develop similar practices to the best-practice companies when attracting the most innovative graduates eg • Wireless access anywhere anytime • Money???! • Demonstrated ethical values-driven environmental / global stances • Uncompromising focus on personal / professional learning opportunities and fast-tracking of career (including travel opportunities)
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26. Slide 30: Some perspectives on innovation • The rise and rise of creativity • Educational Intrapreneurs?? • New thinking on learning delivery eg Innovators who provide online and offline learning to a community / business groups • The promotion of innovative classroom practice!!
27. Slide 31: Digital Literacies??
28. Slide 32: Digital Literacies?? • 20th C - Behaviourist / Constructivist / Cognitivist? • 21st C - Constructivist / meta-cognitivist / Connectivist? • All of the ‘E’s: E-Learning? e-Curriculum? e-Pedagogy? e-Assessment? e-Reporting? • How does an ‘Academic Controversy’ process or a PMI work with a handheld device on a wired campus in a 24- hr learning environment?
29. Slide 33: Intellectually rigorous digital assessment tasks • A blog for exploring your own thinking? • A YouTube video that will score five million hits? • A piece of music that will be created by 200 children from 20 cultures? • A website that will alter global consciousness (Pay It Forward??)
30. Slide 34: Intrapreneurial solution- finding at the personal / community / global level 1. Do your research 2. Work out the real issue / problem 3. Brainstorm solutions 4. Choose one (or several) solution(s) 5. Put it into action
31. Slide 35: Key Questions •How intrapreneurial are YOU? •How intrapreneurial is your SCHOOL? •What’s your perspective on the need to attract the best and the brightest to teaching?
32. Slide 36: The Environmentalist
33. Slide 37: Perspectives • A rebalancing of ‘standard of living’, with ‘quality of life’ A profound awareness of one’s contribution to the Common Good - applying the ripple effect • Sustainable practices in personal and professional life - moving beyond ‘being a greenie’ The microcosm of your classroom: The macrocosm of your planet
34. Slide 38: Practical options • The 10% rule • Implement the 3Rs (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle) • Live a carbon-neutral life • Become a carbon-neutral school • Include an enviro-focus in every study
35. Slide 39: ome support addresses • tonyryan.edublogs.org • tonyryan.com.au • plotpd.com • ted.com
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37. Slide 44: Some TED options • Eve Ensler • Clifford Stoll • Dave Eggars • Johnny Lee • Sugata Mitra
38. Slide 45: Professional coaching 1. What three ideas / concepts most appealed to you from this session? 2. What could you put into action? 3. What will you put into action? 4. What’s the 1st step? 5. How will you keep it going?
39. Slide 46: Final Points • How really will you apply your U- Learn-ings in Term 4? • tonyryan@headfirst.com.au • Teaching is the critical profession. And what YOU do counts!
40. Slide 47: In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honour and the highest responsibility anyone could have. (Lee Iacocca)