Delivery Of Lesson

Engaging Presentation Skills In The Classroom

This post is about us staff here at Waihi College co-constructing a shared understanding of what elements constitute excellence in teaching delivery.  That is for us to put to once side the differences of our learning areas and to formulate a clear set of skills that we believe with best engage our students.     

In the recent ERO review one of the reviewers commented on the prevalence of "high speed verbal" for the delivery of lessons and that there were some instances of "teachers teaching from a chair behind their desk". 

John Hattie's meta-analysis of work in 'Visible Learning' (p. 159) he creates a list of...

The Six Major Characteristics of Teachers Students Want in Class...

1. Someone who stayed with students to complete assignments;
2. Someone who was able to control student behavior without ignoring the lesson;
3. Someone who went out of his or her way to provide help;
4. Someone who explained things until the ‘light bulb went on’ for the whole class;
5. Someone who provided the students with a variety of ways through which to learn; and
6. Someone who understood students’ situations and factored them into this or her lessons.

 

Hargraves and Fullan lay down a challenge to all educators in their 2012 book Professional Capital Transforming Teaching in Every School ...

"You might be the most dedicated and passionate teacher in the world, you might be good on your feet and able to improvise brilliantly, you might have a natural empathy for young people and be very responsive to their needs - but in the end, if  you don't know the difference between good and bad teaching, if you aren't aware of the strategies that succeed with students and haven't learned how to use them, if  you do things that are fun but don't really get students to learn more, then you will sell your students short.  Even with the best of intention, even if you seem like a "natural" as a teacher, unless you deliberately learn how to get better so you can teach the students of today for the world of tomorrow, you will not be teaching like a pro.  You will just be an enthusiastic amateur." (p. 46)

Today I wanted to have you review the habits of delivery that you have.  To consider the 'toolkit' of pedagogies and consider what new items you can add to your practice. 

This post is related to RTC #6. conceptualise, plan and implement an appropriate learning programme.