Teaching Process - Block 2 Flashcards

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Teaching Skills Needed to be an effective instructor (4)

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People Skills
Subject matter experience
Management Skills
Assessment Skills

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Elaborate on the skills needed to be an effective instructor.

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• People skills
o Communicate effectively (no abstract concepts)
o Respectful with students
o Motivate students to learn (readiness)
o Display enthusiasm
o Challenge students (students can tell when you’re going easy on them)
o Willingness to match teaching and learning styles (common experience)

•	Subject matter expertise
o	Technical knowledge (keeping up to date on changes)
o	Proficient flight skills
o	Knowledge of effective teaching
o	Professional development
•	Management skills
o	How to plan the lesson
o	Organize the lesson
o	Lead the student
o	Manage instructional time
o	Supervision of students

• Assessment skills
o Determining student learning
o Determining teaching effectiveness
o Knowledge of effective assessment techniques

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Instructor’s Code of Conduct (6)

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  • Safety #1 priority
  • Exercise good judgment/decision making
  • Manage risks effectively
  • Be accountable for your actions
  • Adhere to prudent operating practices
  • Adhere to applicable regulations
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Teaching Process

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Preparation
Presentation
Participation (application)
Review & Evaluate

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Elaborate on the Teaching Process

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• Preparation (outline, create scenarios, lesson plan)
o Need to determine lesson objective before planning anything
o Consideration of training syllabus
o Develop a lesson plan
o Instructor Review
o Instructor Materials
o Student Assignments (equal to the impact of all of the others)

• Presentation
o Present knowledge & skills needed to complete the lesson objective
o Method of presentation
♣ Lecture (for learning)
• Used when no previous experience with topic exists, so discussion of a topic can not occur just yet.
♣ Discussion (for learning)
♣ Demonstration-Performance (skill development)
• Shows order in which to perform
• Must do in order to learn it effectively

• Participate
o In your stage you will need to have them participate
o Apply knowledge & skills to complete lesson objective
♣ Maneuvers
♣ Solve problems
♣ Answer questions

•	Review & Evaluate (recency and feedback for improvement)
o	Instructor reviews lesson
♣	Law of recency
o	Evaluation
♣	Informs student of their progress
♣	Corrects deficiencies
♣	Formal/informal
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Teaching Method : Lecture (5)

What:
When:

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a. Lecture
i. Speaking to the student with no feedback
ii. Only useful when the student has no previous reading or experience
iii. What: Knowledge
iv. When: New Topic, no previous experience
v. One way process, no feedback expected

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Teaching Method: Discussion (4)

What:
When:

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i. Dialogue between student and teacher, back and forth
ii. What: higher level knowledge and understanding
iii. When: prior experience and elaboration on topics can occur
iv. Two way process, prior experience is developed to build through questions on a discussion

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Teaching Method: Demonstration - Performance (3)

What:
When:

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i. Actually performing maneuvers to build experience, being modeled by instructor
ii. What: Skill
iii. When: hands on skill

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Advantages of Lecture (6)

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  1. Requires less student preparation (student advantage)
  2. Less risk involved (if student isn’t expecting questions) (student advantage)
  3. More time efficient (teaching advantage)
  4. Useful in a group setting (teaching advantage)
  5. Useful for new material (teaching advantage)
  6. Easier to stay on track (teaching advantage)
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Advantages of Discussion: (4)

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  1. More student involvement
  2. More in depth
  3. More effective Learning
  4. Build on knowledge by asking questions
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Disadvantages of Discussion (3)

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  1. Less efficient
  2. Less effective if bigger group
  3. More difficult to stay on track
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Two Key Attributes for discussion that you must have as an instructor.

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  1. Tact:
    a. Have to take the answer you get and mold it, not just simply say “NO”
  2. Patience
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Types of Questions (5)

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o Overhead:
♣ only pertinent in a group setting (lead off question)
♣ Should have why or how
o Rhetorical
♣ Directed to group but instructor answers questions
o Direct
♣ When response is desired from an individual
o Reverse
♣ Response to studnets questions back to student
o Relay
♣ Response to students question back to the group

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Characteristics of a good question: (6)

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  • Clear in Meaning
  • Have specific purpose
  • Should promote a single idea
  • Stimulate thought
  • Requires a definite answer
  • Relates to a previously asked question
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Characteristics of a good question: (6)

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  • Clear in Meaning
  • Have specific purpose
  • Should promote a single idea
  • Stimulate thought
  • Requires a definite answer
  • Relates to a previously asked question
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Phases of Demonstration Performance Method

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o Explanation
o Demonstration
o Student performance
o Evaluate

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Alternative Teaching Methods:

What is the discovery method

Define & Explain the 5 steps

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Discovery Method: The student learns by being cut loose and learning purely by discovery.

  • Give them a problem to solve
  • Instructor provides only basic assistance
  • Safety issues can make this method unusable for flight education
  • Most effective method in terms of learning effectiveness
  • Very strong learning experience but very inefficient.
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Alternative Teaching Methods:

Problem Based Learning:

Define:
PBL Problems must be: (6)

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• Student centered vs. instructor centered
• Confront student with problems and force them to solve it
o PBL problems
♣ Must be realistic and relate to the real world
♣ Require to students to make decision
♣ Not limited to one correct answer
♣ Connected to previous/new knowledge
♣ Reflects lesson objectives
♣ Challenge students to think critically

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Problem based learning methods (3)

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♣ Scenario based training method
• Objective for student to make good decisions and sound judgment
♣ Collaborative problem solving method
• Two or more students solve a problem
♣ Case study method
• Students analyze and conclude solutions

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Alternative Teaching Methods:

Co-operative or group learning method

Define and discuss rules to follow (7)

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•	Small groups activities where students maximize their own and each others learning
o	Rules to follow:
♣	Small groups
♣	Clear instructions
♣	Objectives perceived as personal objectives
♣	Student access to needed information
♣	Sufficient time
♣	Individual accountability
♣	Recognition/rewards for groups
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Alternative Teaching Methods:

Electronic Learning
What is it and give an example (4)

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•	Computer based learning
•	Simulations, role playing, and gaming
•	Examples: 
o	CD/DVD
o	Internet
o	Webinar
o	Online courses
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Integrated Method:

Explain
Why do we use integration method?

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•	Visual Reference
o	More important than instrument indications
•	Instruments reference
•	Why: 
o	Development of scan habits,
o	 increases accuracy of aircraft control for
o	 operating efficiency
o	minimal emergency capability, but some
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Teaching & Doing Technique

Is it effective?
What law does it support?
What happens?

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• Very effective method
• Supports law of primacy
• Instructor tells student how to do it, and then does it
o Explanation and performance must conform
• Student tells & instructor does it
o Insures student understands the process
• Student Tells & Student Does
• Instructor must be alert for errors & student continues under evaluation
o Determine if lesson objective has been met.

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Instructional aids:

What law does it support?
What does it help with?

Examples?

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•	Support the law of intensity
•	Helps maintain attention
•	Aids the student in developing a mental picture
•	Helps student understand relationships between materials and concepts
•	Increases student’s retention
•	Teaching efficiency
•	Examples:
o	Plane on a stick
o	Power-point
o	Pictures
o	Diagrams
o	Drawings
o	Videos
o	Printed material
o	Markers and board
o	Models-mock ups, cutaways
o	Test preparation materials