The Things We Learn from Group Teaching

 Some Ways We Learn Together

3 Connections to Student Teaching

• Lecture as a Form of Group Learning

In this week's reading, we discover how lecture can be outlined in various ways depending upon what desired outcome you want the lesson to produce. More importantly however, the reading notes how it is imperative to create a lecture summary and speaker notes for you while you plan. I wonder why this isn't a practice we use in class while planning to write lessons.

• Use Brainstorming!

I firmly believe brainstorming is an excellent tool for group learning. I justify this with a scenario. Imagine I'm facilitating a workshop where I am trying to convince the audience that student employees are a vital demographic to recruit. I could speak until my face was blue with all the words but when I ask them to come up with the answer on their own, they take ownership. At the end of the end of the day, people are more willing to learn from themselves than they are from others. Or at least, that makes sense to me.

• Asking the right questions!

Our questions for students will make or break for actual learning. The reading made note of some of the better and less quality questions for students. One point the reading made was that teachers are not supposed to reject the first wrong answer. The point was made because teachers are to dig deeper into exploring as a class to take the wrong answer and utilize the class knowledge to arrive at the appropriate answer.

2 Connections to My #AEE Coursework

• AEE413 - Program Management

Our reading boasted this title: "Effective Teaching: The Dequalliberate Act of Planning, Organizing, and Managing a Comprehensive Agriculture Program". In AEE 413 we are exploring the planning and operational knowledge that goes into a well run agriculture program. This point makes it clear that being an excellent teacher goes beyond the typical teaching class interface time. But rather, there is a positive correlation between the work that goes on behind the scenes and the success of our agricultural education programs.

• AEE 295 - Keep your eyes on the Ag Ed prize!

Our reading also made it clear that supervised agricultural experience and FFA are not the brightest stars in the sky. The instruction we've received thus far has almost created an idea that all 3 are working equally. However this reading is adamant in saying the instruction of any sort is your number one job followed by SAE and FFA.  I think this makes sense because in the end, my administration aint gonna pay me to watch students do.