The Coalition for Creating and Sustaining Innovative Schools, an interdisciplinary collaboration of UCF faculty and community partners, will be hosting a FREE webinaron the topic, "Overhauling the Transmission Model" of teaching.
Students are not receptacles to be filled with knowledge, or clay to be molded. They, like all of us, are active meaning-makers. The implication, as one educator put it, is that teaching is mostly listening, and learning is mostly telling — a dictum that requires us to rethink the use of lectures, worksheets, textbooks, and, for that matter, our preconceptions about what makes a good teacher (particularly at the high school level).
This presentation by Alfie Kohn, author of What to Look for in a Classroom, explains why the traditional “bunch o’ facts” model of instruction, with its emphasis on memorizing right answers and practicing skills, is virtually guaranteed to fail. Participants are invited to consider how teachers of all ages and all subjects can become more successful at helping students make sense of ideas for themselves — and with each other.
*No charge for registration, however reservations for the Zoom broadcast are limited to the first 100 registrants.
Register at https://tinyurl.com/KohnWebinar.
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Alfie Kohn is the author of 14 books on education, parenting, and human behavior, including Punished by Rewards (1993), Beyond Discipline (1996), The Schools our Children Deserve (1999), Unconditional Parenting (2005), The Homework Myth (2006), and The Myth of the Spoiled Child (2014). He has written for most of the leading education periodicals and has appeared twice on “Oprah.” Time magazine described him as “perhaps the country’s most outspoken critic of education’s fixation on grades [and] test scores.” Kohn works with educators and parents across the country and speaks regularly at national conferences -- or at least did so when in-person conferences were still a thing.