James Kiely - have-a-chat

What the heck is Explicit Teaching?

James and I thrash out the question 'What is explicit teaching' ... and ended up with more questions than answers!

Video Timestamps:
0:33 What the heck is explicit teaching?

2:30 Student-centred learning and conceptually-based teaching: Every time these are mentioned misconceptions arise.

3:00 The importance of students understanding what they are working on in class. (Therefore, we can’t rely on a traditional teacher-centric approach.)     

4:45 The need for high-quality, teacher-directed, explicit teaching.       

7:00 The perils of open-ended learning  in the absence of new information. Is explicit teaching really about outcomes?        

9:30 Perhaps the reason why explicit teaching is assumed to be teacher-directed is because there idea of student-centred learning is absent from the explicit teaching debate. Therefore, explicit teaching is assumed to be teacher-centric!?  

11:00 Richard’s highly structured, student-centred, conceptual-based coordinate geometry example - could this be an example of explicit teaching?      

17:30 James explains the problems inherent with effect sizes, correlations and variables.            

21:00 The hypothetical Venn Diagram featuring teacher-centred instruction, student-centred instruction and explicit teaching!       

22:30 Implementing new strategies with students - are we trying to improve results or to improve buy-in from students?

A chat about Maths Teaching

James and I thrash out the question 'What is explicit teaching' ... and ended up with more questions than answers!

Video Timestamps:
1:00 The issue of teacher responsibility, teaching to the middle and  student spread.

4:00 Teacher direction vs student centred

6:30 Misconceptions about student centred learning. Mini lessons.

8:30 Workshopping Open Ended Questions

13:00 Student centred learning, engagement and the role of choice in student ownership of learning

16:00 Authentic student engagement - what is it?

17:00 Compliance: Issues with following compliance; why this (perhaps) leads to teacher-directed teaching.

21:00 Expectations: Should we have absolute expectations or relative expectations? Or should our expectations be based on learning?

23:00 Teaching … What’s the real aim here?

24:00 The issue with compliance is interpretation??!!

25:00 Responsibility - there’s only 100% to go round so who should be taking most of the responsibility - the teacher or the students?

25:30 Having a good time when teaching is underrated!