Lecture 14 Why do I Need a Teacher When I have got Google by Prof. bhawani

1. WHY DO I NEED A
TEACHER WHEN I’VE
GOT GOOGLE?
(Chapter 27 – Chapter 28)
Bhawani Shankar Pattnaik

2. MUCHOS POCOS HACEN
UN MUCHO
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In Spanish: a lot of a little is a lot or little things can make a big
difference.

3. The Curse of Being Different: New Scientist article
 What if you could improve the performance of Girls in a subject like
Maths where traditionally they have not done as well as boys?
OR
 if you could Raise the Test Scores of young Black People instantly

4. As per an experiment conducted
 The researchers felt that something so simple as ticking a box to indicate your race
or gender before an exam can effect your performance
 at a subconscious level, serve to reinforce the negative views that society held about your race or
gender, views such as ‘Black kids don’t do well at school’ or ‘Girls are no good at math’.
one group of girls were
asked to read a passage
about the ‘fixed’ gender
differences in numeracy
ability just before they
sat a maths test.
A different group were given
a passage to read that
talked about how ability was
modifiable, not fixed.
This second group increased their achievement in the math test by a staggering 50 per cent.
The Curse of Being Different: New Scientist article

5. Fixed Mindset Vs Growth Mindset
Mindset
A key element that
differentiates Learner
A Teacher has a great role
in helping create this
Mindset in their
learners

6. Praising Ability Vs Praising Effort
‘Good work, Sonya. You’re brilliant!’
‘Good work, Sonya. I can see that you
really worked hard at this.’
Leads to Fixed Mindset Leads to Growth Mindset

7. Teachers Role in Creating Learners’ Attitudes
Teachers play a big role in creating
learners’ attitudes
 By helping learner changing their
perspective of looking at things.
 By selecting suitable Teaching-Learning
Mechanism

8. Traditional Teaching Methodology : Stress on Teacher
 Stress of planning and preparation
 Pressure of getting it right.
 No matter how well you plan, it will not always go well.
 Emotional Baggage: ‘I’ve been up all night preparing that . . . !’
 Less or no sense of ownership of the lesson by the students!
 As the Eskimo saying goes, ‘If you sweat, you die.’
 What’s the least amount of preparation I can put into this lesson to get
the learning outcomes I want?
 Work less hard because the less work you do the better you impart
learning

9. Approach for a Better Learning
Kinesthetic Learning
 Lessons are planned in great detail and
explained in precise detail.
 presenting new ideas as fixed knowledge
and in terms of right/wrong.
 Right Way – Right Result.
 This must work well or else I will have failed.
 Learning in a stressed environment.
 Teacher takes a lot of effort in
preparation, delivery etc. But student do
not have a active participation.
Traditional Learning
 Your classroom is a laboratory, each lesson is
an experiment
 A clarity of outcome – what was to be learned
– but a haziness in the process – exactly how
they did it was up to them
 Experiments can’t go wrong and you can not
fail.
 Active participation by learners with a less
effort from teacher side.
Gandhi entitled his autobiography, “The Story of My
Experiments with Truth”

10. Advantages of Kinesthetic Learning

11. YOUR CLASSROOM IS NOT JUST
AN ENVIRONMENT IN WHICH
YOU CAN SHOW HOW CLEVER
YOU ARE
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12. Approaches to Teaching
 Always like to have a Impactful Teaching
 Hoping students will like him and think highly of him
 Wants students to remember him at the end of the year
 Having it be important to look smart, witty or charming
 Wanting students know when they are wrong and correct them
 Wanting to be right about something in debate or discussion
 Making students wrong for forgetting something
 Keeping things the same, protecting status quo.
Good TeacherEgoistic Teacher: By American educationalist Eric Jensen.

13. Problems with most of our Class Room
 We see classroom as the place not so much where children shine
but where teachers perform.
 Sometimes there is so much teaching going on there is no space for
them to learn anything
 But teachers’ job isn’t to teach the stuff, instead the job is to ensure
that your children learn the stuff.
As per Eric Jensen

14. A Good Teacher
 Teacher should not be the Hero of the Class Room.
 A wise teacher lets students have the floor.
 A good teacher is better than a spectacular teacher. Otherwise
the teacher outshines the teachings.
 One should facilitate what is happening rather than what he thinks
ought to be happening.

15. WHY DO I NEED A
TEACHER WHEN I’VE
GOT GOOGLE?
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