How To Do Less With More

How To Do More With Less!

This Article is showing how teachers how to use different teaching styles because the demand for more education but less materials and budgets made it harder on the teachers to get that face-to-face lecture time where the students need the most help and can ask questions. So what was brought up was the blending teaching style, this was the method that teachers would post up power points, slideshows and video online so that it could further help the student outside of the classroom. The author also explains how the teacher could post online assessment check list that students can check and keep track of all that is being done and how they are doing in class. One of the most important in my opinion that this methods helps that student the most is that they could continue online discussions or post question that could be answered by peers and the teacher could open a chat room for help with homework also.
The next method is Flipped Classroom Instruction. In this method the author gives the example that if students learned the material at home instead of doing homework and come to class ready to engage in discussion and activities then the teacher will have the classroom time to have the students think critically. This allows for more research on topics, labs, group projects, etc...
So the author main reason in writing this was to show and have teachers awareness in different methods that help them engage the student better and deal more with the limited resources that are being given by the schools. This allows the classroom time to be extend, so to speak, for those students that don't get enough of it due to high volumes and other restrictions.
By seeing these new methods of teaching with less that schools are getting really inspires me to become a teacher even more because I would use these new ideas and even try to produce some of my own. I could use the Flipped Classroom to have the students ahead by introducing the subject first to them in a way that was somewhat of homework. They would come in already with and an idea of the material being shared that day in class. This would allow me to go into more in depth of the subject because they would already know the background. Then with the other method, blending teaching, I would just put up blogs or have a place where I can have an open session for who ever need help, they could chat or write the question and I would help them out with it.
It falls under the ISTE NETS number 2, Communication and Collaboration and also number 4, Critical Thinking, Problem Solving and Decision Making, this one fits better with the Flipped Classroom.

Pape, L Sheehan,T, & Worrell, C (March/April 2012). How To Do More With Less. retrieved September 12 2012, from Learning and Leading with Technology Web Site: http://www.learningandleading-digital.com/learning_leading/20120304#pg20