Sep 2: I learnt today several teaching methods. I liked Pecha Kucha method
since it's an interesting way to present something in compact form. I
think it's a good way to present yourself, your education, and work
experience and I could imagine to ask students to make such a
presentation. I learnt many new things about the other students through
Pecha Kucha today and I think I'll remember those things better now when
I saw pictures compared to plain spoken self-introductions.
I
had pre-recorded my own presentation as I had thought that it would be
nice just relax and watch the presentations in class. However, I wasn't
satisfied with the result of my recording and in the actual presentation
I decided to commentate the PowerPoint slides live. It went quite well
even though I hadn't practised to present it live at all. I had tried to
make the recording work several times, so I remembered quite well what
to say with each slide. Anyway I liked the fact that Pecha Kucha gave
the opportunity to choose how to commentate your slides. Practising live
performing is generally speaking more important, but after this
exercise I think I also would like to practise more to speak with a mic
and get used to it.
Today's second exercise was a QR
code race. That was a very contemporary teaching method, and I think it
could be a good way to activate younger students, but it can work with
adults, too. For example, I learnt something about the theory of
experiantal learning in funny way while we performed our race tasks.
Finally,
we had some educational sciences activities where we taught and studied
poems, drawing, and plays. I learnt some methods how to teach different
tasks, for example you can draw pictures or tell a story around the
task. Many students in this class are already experienced teachers, and I
think that I, as a beginner, can learn a lot from them when we do group
work.
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Sep 3: We continued the group activities on Tuesday. Every group had very short time to prepare a presentation on a given subject. My group presented first about effective learning. We came up with a good idea to present language studying with learning-by-doing method called Kolb's experiental learning, but unfortunately our performance was not the best since we didn'd involve the audience in it. The audience also complained that they couldn't see our studying material that we used in our presentation, since we didn't lift it up to them to see it better. But this is all about learning, and I'm sure we will take these issues into consideration next time. I also learnt about different ways to carry out such a task when watching other groups performing.
One new thing to me was a Socrative online survey programme. I think that using it would be interesting to students, and thus I could use it in my future teaching work.
We also had an online presentation given by Dr. Deborah Hill from Utah. She told us that vocational teachers don't often have a pedagogical training in the US. I found it interesting to know how things are in another country and compare that to the situation in Finland.
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