http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJrqM7Rx_FY&feature=player_embeddedKentucky School News and Commentary: Is Teaching a Science or an Art?
Kentucky School News and Commentary: Is Teaching a Science or an Art?: I teach that it is both. Cognitive scientist Daniel Willingham has another answer. This from the Answer Sheet : Daniel Willingham de...
I agree that teaching is somewhere in between an art and a science but I disagree that it is neither one. I found it interesting how the author compares medicine and teaching at first then compared architecture and teaching at the end. Teaching is not an exact science but I do think that when scientific methods of education are applied to classroom settings that science is involved directly. I think teaching is a bit of an art. Being able to come up with creative ways to present context materials to students that captivate their attention and spark future learning is an art. In my opinion it takes a great deal of artistic ability to make interesting and effective lesson plans. The author of this article made several good points of what it takes to make a good teacher and the two main things were first to use science to make lesson plans and for materials. Secondly, to use the methods to evaluate the actual learning that resulted from the lesson. I found the presentation of the information interesting in this article but disagree with the authors statements that teaching is not a science nor an art. I think it is a lot of both and everything in
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Monday, June 18, 2012
Kentucky School News and Commentary: Is Teaching a Science or an Art?
Kentucky School News and Commentary: Is Teaching a Science or an Art?
I agree that teaching is somewhere in between an art and a science but I disagree that it is neither one. I found it interesting how the author compares medicine and teaching at first then compared architecture and teaching at the end. Teaching is not an exact science but I do think that when scientific methods of education are applied to classroom settings that science is involved directly. I think teaching is a bit of an art. Being able to come up with creative ways to present context materials to students that captivate their attention and spark future learning is an art. In my opinion it takes a great deal of artistic ability to make interesting and effective lesson plans. The author of this article made several good points of what it takes to make a good teacher and the two main things were first to use science to make lesson plans and for materials. Secondly, to use the methods to evaluate the actual learning that resulted from the lesson. I found the presentation of the information interesting in this article but disagree with the authors statements that teaching is not a science nor an art. I think it is a lot of both and everything in between.
I agree that teaching is somewhere in between an art and a science but I disagree that it is neither one. I found it interesting how the author compares medicine and teaching at first then compared architecture and teaching at the end. Teaching is not an exact science but I do think that when scientific methods of education are applied to classroom settings that science is involved directly. I think teaching is a bit of an art. Being able to come up with creative ways to present context materials to students that captivate their attention and spark future learning is an art. In my opinion it takes a great deal of artistic ability to make interesting and effective lesson plans. The author of this article made several good points of what it takes to make a good teacher and the two main things were first to use science to make lesson plans and for materials. Secondly, to use the methods to evaluate the actual learning that resulted from the lesson. I found the presentation of the information interesting in this article but disagree with the authors statements that teaching is not a science nor an art. I think it is a lot of both and everything in between.
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Monday, July 26, 2010
Avery's Self Critique
Avery Williamson
John Barbour
7/26/10
Self Critique
I didn’t realize how silly I actually looked while I stood up there. When I was giving my presentation to the class I felt as if I did everything to perfection. All my words seemed to come out clear and my delivery was perfect. When I looked at my video, I saw that I was wrong. I found a few good things and bad ones. When I practiced in my dorm my speech was smooth as butter, but the first thing I noticed on the video was how nervous I seemed to be. I didn’t notice myself repeating any of my material because I had it organized well on my note cards. Another huge problem was eye contact. That’s one aspect of my presentation where I thought I was the strongest. The video revealed to me how little I gazed into the audience. I could tell I was nervous the way I jumped from looking back and forth from my note cards to the picture on the projector screen. Eye contact is very critical because it engages the audience more and keeps them interested. The last negative flaw I spotted in my elf critique was extra movement. I seemed to sway back and forth an excessive amount, as if a giant fan was trying to blow me over.
Some of the positives I noticed were great word speed, clear speech, word fillers, and gestures. Word speed was a lot better than the first two presentations. I slowed down dramatically and let myself think more. I made sure I said all of my words clear so the audience could understand it all. My biggest pet peeve I improved was saying umm so much. Instead of filling the awkward silences with that phrase, I just decided to completely close my mouth and say nothing.
I feel like I improved by watching this video of myself. I would have never noticed all of my mistakes unless I watched it. The plan for my next presentation is to strictly work on all the flaws I have. They’re simple mistakes that just need a small bit of practice. Overall I thought my presentation was pretty good, and I’m anxious to see how my next one is.
John Barbour
7/26/10
Self Critique
I didn’t realize how silly I actually looked while I stood up there. When I was giving my presentation to the class I felt as if I did everything to perfection. All my words seemed to come out clear and my delivery was perfect. When I looked at my video, I saw that I was wrong. I found a few good things and bad ones. When I practiced in my dorm my speech was smooth as butter, but the first thing I noticed on the video was how nervous I seemed to be. I didn’t notice myself repeating any of my material because I had it organized well on my note cards. Another huge problem was eye contact. That’s one aspect of my presentation where I thought I was the strongest. The video revealed to me how little I gazed into the audience. I could tell I was nervous the way I jumped from looking back and forth from my note cards to the picture on the projector screen. Eye contact is very critical because it engages the audience more and keeps them interested. The last negative flaw I spotted in my elf critique was extra movement. I seemed to sway back and forth an excessive amount, as if a giant fan was trying to blow me over.
Some of the positives I noticed were great word speed, clear speech, word fillers, and gestures. Word speed was a lot better than the first two presentations. I slowed down dramatically and let myself think more. I made sure I said all of my words clear so the audience could understand it all. My biggest pet peeve I improved was saying umm so much. Instead of filling the awkward silences with that phrase, I just decided to completely close my mouth and say nothing.
I feel like I improved by watching this video of myself. I would have never noticed all of my mistakes unless I watched it. The plan for my next presentation is to strictly work on all the flaws I have. They’re simple mistakes that just need a small bit of practice. Overall I thought my presentation was pretty good, and I’m anxious to see how my next one is.
Self Critique
In my presentation on obesity and the Obesity Society overall I didn’t do as bad as I thought I did. I honestly thought that while I was up there and right before I watched it I would look very stupid and look like I didn’t no what I was doing. Although I didn’t think I did as bad as I thought, there was still some things that I could definitely do better. For starters throughout my entire speech I always caught myself keep looking at the picture instead of looking at the class. The class can already see it so I shouldn’t have to keep looking back and forth at it cause I already know what it is. Another thing I kept doing was saying “I guess” and “like” a lot. I don’t really no why I say it because I know what I want to say I just sometimes question my thoughts because I think they will sound dumb. Because I think I do a good job of knowing what im going to say it seems like when I get up there I get really nervous and don’t look like im enjoying myself at all. That is a problem because on the grading scale you get points for enthusiasm and I could tell by watching the video that I didn’t really have any. Another thing was that I got so nervous I would keep losing my place and finding it again resorting in saying stuff out of order. This caused my presentation to not flow like the way I wanted it too. Another thing is I touched my face a lot during the speech. I assume this just means I was nervous about people looking at me. Even though that I had some flaws in my speech I guess it wasn’t really that bad. I just need to stay positive in what im saying and il be fine. My plan of attack for my next presentation will to do a lot of what I usually do. But this time I know that I need to just stop worrying about what I say and just be myself. I also need to actually have fun with the presentation instead of just acting like im doing cause I have to. Another thing that I must work on is eye contact. That basically makes up a lot of how people react to your presentation and without that it will appear sorry. If I do these things for my next presentation I believe the outcome will be much greater, in my point of view and on m
In my presentation on obesity and the Obesity Society overall I didn’t do as bad as I thought I did. I honestly thought that while I was up there and right before I watched it I would look very stupid and look like I didn’t no what I was doing. Although I didn’t think I did as bad as I thought, there was still some things that I could definitely do better. For starters throughout my entire speech I always caught myself keep looking at the picture instead of looking at the class. The class can already see it so I shouldn’t have to keep looking back and forth at it cause I already know what it is. Another thing I kept doing was saying “I guess” and “like” a lot. I don’t really no why I say it because I know what I want to say I just sometimes question my thoughts because I think they will sound dumb. Because I think I do a good job of knowing what im going to say it seems like when I get up there I get really nervous and don’t look like im enjoying myself at all. That is a problem because on the grading scale you get points for enthusiasm and I could tell by watching the video that I didn’t really have any. Another thing was that I got so nervous I would keep losing my place and finding it again resorting in saying stuff out of order. This caused my presentation to not flow like the way I wanted it too. Another thing is I touched my face a lot during the speech. I assume this just means I was nervous about people looking at me. Even though that I had some flaws in my speech I guess it wasn’t really that bad. I just need to stay positive in what im saying and il be fine. My plan of attack for my next presentation will to do a lot of what I usually do. But this time I know that I need to just stop worrying about what I say and just be myself. I also need to actually have fun with the presentation instead of just acting like im doing cause I have to. Another thing that I must work on is eye contact. That basically makes up a lot of how people react to your presentation and without that it will appear sorry. If I do these things for my next presentation I believe the outcome will be much greater, in my point of view and on m
Presentation Critique
My presentation was not that bad! I feel as if I did a lot better than what I thought I did. When we wrote the free write about how we thought our presentation went I wrote about how I forgot a lot of words and could not think of them. I thought that I stumbled on words a lot more than I actually did in the presentation. What I did write about that was true and something that I really need to work on is practicing. I’ll be honest in the fact that I did not practice this presentation. I hate practicing in front of the mirror because I feel stupid, but I feel a lot stupider when I get up there and stumble on words because it is the first time I am presenting this topic. I believe that if I practiced even a total of two times in front of the mirror at home I would get a lot better score on my presentation grade. The scores I received from the class were really a lot better than I thought they were going to be as well. I didn’t receive below a 4 in any of the areas. Something that the student scores told me that I did not realize I needed to work on was my volume. I got a score of 4.2 on volume so that tells me I could be a little louder. After watching the video I do agree with the fact that I should be a little bit louder. That is something I would have never realized if I had never watched the video or gotten back my scores from the presentation.
While watching my presentation something that I noticed a lot was the common problem of saying “um.” I said it constantly! I said it when I couldn’t think of the word I wanted to use, I said it when I was introducing the next topic, and I said it when I was done with that topic. I knew I had to of said “um” a lot, just because it is one of the most common mistakes in presenting, but I had no idea I said it that much. That is something that without seeing this video I would have never known I needed to work on. Another thing that tends to be a common mistake as well is my lack of eye contact. That is something I knew I needed to work on even before I watched the video of my presentation. For this particular essay, it was about an image. I looked up at the image the majority of the time during my presentation. I really need to work on eye contact and looking at the audience for my next presentation. I also need to work on my hand gestures. From the class scores I got a 4.4 on gestures and that was my second lowest score. I hold my note cards with both hands for the most part and need to steer away from that.
I think that the best way to change my presentation would be to first look at the St. Martin’s Handbook the day before I give my presentation. Then, remember those guidelines while I practice my speech at least once or twice in front of my mirror at home. I never really get too nervous when speaking in front of others, although a little more self confidence could help me a lot in the long run.
While watching my presentation something that I noticed a lot was the common problem of saying “um.” I said it constantly! I said it when I couldn’t think of the word I wanted to use, I said it when I was introducing the next topic, and I said it when I was done with that topic. I knew I had to of said “um” a lot, just because it is one of the most common mistakes in presenting, but I had no idea I said it that much. That is something that without seeing this video I would have never known I needed to work on. Another thing that tends to be a common mistake as well is my lack of eye contact. That is something I knew I needed to work on even before I watched the video of my presentation. For this particular essay, it was about an image. I looked up at the image the majority of the time during my presentation. I really need to work on eye contact and looking at the audience for my next presentation. I also need to work on my hand gestures. From the class scores I got a 4.4 on gestures and that was my second lowest score. I hold my note cards with both hands for the most part and need to steer away from that.
I think that the best way to change my presentation would be to first look at the St. Martin’s Handbook the day before I give my presentation. Then, remember those guidelines while I practice my speech at least once or twice in front of my mirror at home. I never really get too nervous when speaking in front of others, although a little more self confidence could help me a lot in the long run.
presentation critique
Nobody is a harsher judge on me than myself. Ill will probably judge myself way worse than any other person does just because I believe in the fact that if you are your biggest critic you can only make yourself better. Watching my presentation many things stood out to me right off the bat. My eye contact first off was terrible and the class seemed to think so to because that was my lowest rated thing at a 3.7. I personally would give it between a one or a two based on the fact that I seemed nervous and that caused me to either stare desperately into my note cards or the picture being projected on the wall.
The class rated me second lowest on the gestures aspect. I noticed this to when watching the video, if it was based on how still you keep your arms I would have killed it, because in the video my arms and hand remained at the same angle the entire time; only with the slight change to point something out about the picture. I blame this on the note cards but the fact is the only reason I was able to go the whole five minutes is because of the note cards.
The note cards also extremely helped me with organization without them I would have been like a babbling child trying to give a speech, probably similar to the e-trade baby.
My poster was rated the best thing by the class, I don’t really know why because it seemed to me that my head was down staring at the note cards the whole time. So that one is beyond me but I’m glad people think I have good posture.
I believe volume and enthusiasm kind of go hand in hand. If our excited about what your presenting than your going to speak louder, I think it’s just human nature. Me personally I was not excited to present more like dreading it I get really nervous in bigger crowds one of the reasons I never speak out in class its just one of those personal things. Because of this I found myself taking deeper breaths and trying to slow my heart which seemed to be running a race. You can’t tell in the video but I distinctly remember my leg twitching and shaking through out the entire presentation
A few other things I noticed were I said uh and so a lot I don’t know if this was to re capture were I was going or what but it seemed to annoy me re-watching my presentation. I also noticed that a few points throughout my presentation I stuttered a little bit. This could be a side effect of being nervous but I’m going to concentrate not to do that as much in the next one. On kind of a side note that has nothing to do with my presentation, I didn’t know my voice was that deep. I don’t tend to watch or listen to myself a lot so this came to kind of a shock to me.
Going by the presentation guide lines in the St. Martin’s handbook I do believe my presentation captured the specifications of the project. However I don’t think I got the audience’s attention, I doubt they wanted to listen to another skinny person rant about McDonald's for five minutes. I did practice my presentation about five times to make sure I could get to the five minute mark even though I learned later that it only had to be four minutes. And my visuals were prepared well because there was only one that was just projected the whole time.
So over all I feel that I did decent on this presentation I’m going to have to work and practice harder for project three and even more so for project four though.
The class rated me second lowest on the gestures aspect. I noticed this to when watching the video, if it was based on how still you keep your arms I would have killed it, because in the video my arms and hand remained at the same angle the entire time; only with the slight change to point something out about the picture. I blame this on the note cards but the fact is the only reason I was able to go the whole five minutes is because of the note cards.
The note cards also extremely helped me with organization without them I would have been like a babbling child trying to give a speech, probably similar to the e-trade baby.
My poster was rated the best thing by the class, I don’t really know why because it seemed to me that my head was down staring at the note cards the whole time. So that one is beyond me but I’m glad people think I have good posture.
I believe volume and enthusiasm kind of go hand in hand. If our excited about what your presenting than your going to speak louder, I think it’s just human nature. Me personally I was not excited to present more like dreading it I get really nervous in bigger crowds one of the reasons I never speak out in class its just one of those personal things. Because of this I found myself taking deeper breaths and trying to slow my heart which seemed to be running a race. You can’t tell in the video but I distinctly remember my leg twitching and shaking through out the entire presentation
A few other things I noticed were I said uh and so a lot I don’t know if this was to re capture were I was going or what but it seemed to annoy me re-watching my presentation. I also noticed that a few points throughout my presentation I stuttered a little bit. This could be a side effect of being nervous but I’m going to concentrate not to do that as much in the next one. On kind of a side note that has nothing to do with my presentation, I didn’t know my voice was that deep. I don’t tend to watch or listen to myself a lot so this came to kind of a shock to me.
Going by the presentation guide lines in the St. Martin’s handbook I do believe my presentation captured the specifications of the project. However I don’t think I got the audience’s attention, I doubt they wanted to listen to another skinny person rant about McDonald's for five minutes. I did practice my presentation about five times to make sure I could get to the five minute mark even though I learned later that it only had to be four minutes. And my visuals were prepared well because there was only one that was just projected the whole time.
So over all I feel that I did decent on this presentation I’m going to have to work and practice harder for project three and even more so for project four though.
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