Take Aways Thus Far
Right away I’m intimidated about teaching. From all angels we’re getting told how to be good teacher. It’s all good advise and I want and need to remember it, but I know that experience brings a lot into our teaching methods. These are a few things I want to carry with me.
It will be a challenge and maybe as I get further on in the major I’ll know how to better do this but to somehow help my students learn to love the material. No matter what I’m teaching I want my students to see the relevance. Even if I’m teaching film editing I want them to see the purpose and meaning of it all. I want them to see the value so that they even if they really don’t like the material being taught they will want to know it, and remember it.
I want to always continue to learn new things as well as look for ways to improve on what I already know or current techniques. I would be doing my students a disservice if I don’t try to build upon and improve my own knowledge. I can’t expect my students to be life long learners if I don’t do this as well. This is something to talk about with my students up front to let them know where I’m coming from and what my expectations are.
I now know that there is a difference between presenting and teaching.
I’ve thought for a while now that I was already a decent teacher, but just within the first two weeks of class I know I have a lot of work to do. I need to explain things better. I need to involve the class more. I need to be specific in my learning objectives. Making things relevant to them and not just teaching for the sake of teaching.
A specific aspect of class that I found really interesting is different teaching and learning styles. We all teach and learn in different ways. One teacher can’t teach in all the ways that their students learn by, we can try though, we can do as much as we can to cater to those needs.
Speaking of learning styles I like when complex subjects are broken down into easier to understand steps or pieces like this model learning:

- Knowledge
- Understanding
- Application
- Analysis
- Synthesis
- Evaluation