Methods of Teaching

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UNIT 1
UNIT 4
UNIT 5
UNIT 3
UNIT 6
UNIT 7
UNIT 2
Week 16, session 1 lesson
Today in class (10 minutes) 
The previous class session was a review and summary of the course. Having experienced 
that review, ask five Student Teachers at random to identify the one idea they encountered 
in this course that they believe will be the most helpful to them in the classroom.
Independent activity (10 minutes)
The purpose of this unit it to study, talk, and think about self-regulated learning. Give 
individual Student Teachers 10 minutes to think and make notes about what they do 
when they are learning/studying. Their notes should address the following questions 
and the related actions they take:
• What is your mind doing when you are reading an assignment from a textbook? 
• What do you do when you are listening to a lecture? 
• How do you prepare to write a paper? 
• When you are reading, are you aware when you do not understand something?
If so, what do you do? 
Small-group discussion (10 minutes)
Ask Student Teachers to share their individual responses with each other.
Group reports to the class (10 minutes) 
Have one person from each group summarize and share the strategies suggested by 
the rest of the group members. Listen in particular for reports on setting goals for 
study sessions and evaluating if their goals have been achieved. Listen also for exam-
ples of how Student Teachers monitor the success of their self-study strategies and 
what they are doing if they are not working.
Guided discussion of the interdependence of learning and motivation
(10 minutes)
Ask for a definition of motivation. Scaffold it, if necessary, and do not be too con-
cerned about precision. Work with the class to refine the definition in the next session. 
Ask how motivation and learning are related. The ideal answer is that they are interde-
pendent processes and cannot be fully understood apart from each other. If necessary, 
guide the class towards this answer. Motivation leads to effort, which leads to learn-
ing and success, and learning leads to increased interest and increased motivation. 
Continue with this idea in the next session on motivation.