My Teaching philosophy - Feed the Hostage while you have their attention.
My Background about teaching-
I prefer Student-Centered Teaching and the teacher being the facilitator. I believe what we learn can be broken down into simple structures or symbols. In Air Traffic Control we call this "The Newbie Board." Students simple use memorization for the first 3 days of any subject. We create a picture of all the material that will be covered. Pictures are 100 times easier to memorize than words or numbers. Here is an Example.
This picture represents everything about what we need to know. We draw this picture about 30 times until we have it memorized. Once it is memorized we can use access the information by drawing it anywhere. Different areas of the picture represent different things we must know like Altitudes, Speeds, and Frequencies. All you have to do is picture that area of the flips in your mind and fill in the blank. This is behaviorism. Step #2 is Cognitive, Constructive, and Connectivism (Social Constructive) based learning. Congnitive are what steps must I follow in order to do a specific task like get airspace. Constructive is the problem solving of how to get an aircraft from point A to point B safely. Social Constructive is when I deploy to a Foreign Country with an Air Traffic Control Team how do all of US work together to develop Controlled Airspace from all our previous experiences into one team that moves and responds like a fluid or as one. Philosophy
The Teaching Philosophy or Model for a classroom environment must be based on the Need's of the Individual or Group. As a Teacher or Facilitator we must pick which teaching strategy is needed and come up with the appropriate Activity. We must not forget the most important part in this process and that is Keeping it Simple. Everything is wasted if Teachers deviate from structure or routines. If you find a good strategy that is easily understood than keep it. Communication is the hardest part of teaching. The student wants to achieve a goal as instructors we know how to get them to that goal the problem lies in communicating it so be are both on the "same sheet of music". Self motivated learners will consume knowledge extremely rapidly (or like a hungry hostage at a buffet table).
Learning in the Near Future(I'm still trying to figure out how the teacher got her videos in her blogs)-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JTc9HeTh1A&feature=player_detailpage
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Tip of the Day- Copy and Paste into Blogger (Edit Html must be used) http://www.ehow.com/how_5226330_copy-paste-word-blogger-tags.html
I'm just getting the hang of this Html thingy but I hope to figure this out and how to use it- http://www.web-source.net/html_codes_chart.htm
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