What am I going to say here?
My Personal Values in Teaching
What I believe is worth Teaching in FSP!
What Skills would I impart?
What Attitudes would I wish to inculcate?
Values in Teaching
Some Universal Sacreds
Do no "teacherly" harm
Honesty
Love and Respect for the Kids and what they bring
Values: Do No Harm
The Golden Rule, of course, is “do to others as you would have them do to you.”
The Silver Rule, in all its double negative glory, is “do not do to others what you don’t want them to do to you.”
In other words: never impose a Way of Thinking or Acting on Students that is not a living reality for yourself.
Teach from a position of Belief and Practice
"Unlearn". Bah!
It’s close in some ways to the Hippocratic Oath, or “do no harm”.
https://medium.com/@jeffdesjardins/the-silver-rule-taleb-and-the-slippery-slope-to-interventionism-ef6baef17c23
Values: Honesty
Differentiate between:
- What I know from my own experience
- What I know from someone else's experience
Transparency
- "Arvind, Why is this Assignment graded so low?" is a good question!!
- More than one way of doing good work in class !!
- All grades public in my classroom
If I goof up, I own up and make good
- Change grades / comments /scores if I make an error
- In full public glare
Values: Love and Respect
for the Students
Know their NAMES
Acknowledge their PRESENCE
Welcome their BACKGROUNDS
Endorse their IDENTITIES
Celebrate their WORK
What I Teach
Big Understandings (Understandings Approach)
Modelling and Applying (Dispositions Approach)
Taxonomy of Ideas, Structures and Tools (Skills Approach)
Example: Classical TRIZ in FSP: Play and Invent
Big Idea: Generalized Problem: "Your Problem has been solved somewhere else"
Modelling/Applying: "Metaphorize" your Problem using 39 TRIZ Parameters
- Taxonomy: The 8 TRIZ Laws of Evolution of a Product; TRIZ Contradictions Matrix; TRIZ 40 Inventive Principles
Skills : Digital Technology
Creative Purpose <--> Tool Capability: a Dance
Replication is key:
- I want work to be "reproducible" and "copy-able".
- Replication precedes Change and Innovation
- Replication can create Scaleable Things
- Tech tools help with all that.
Tech can be trans-disciplinary
I am a technologist and a tech practitioner
Skills : Community and Languages
Reading, Writing, Talking
- Absolutely Critical Skills!
Talking and Collaboration
- Vernacular Languages
- Mother Tongue
Community Orientation
- How many strangers do you talk to daily?
Attitude : The Word "Yet"
Add "yet" to every perceived shortcoming...
"I don't know...YET"
"I don't draw...YET"
I don't code..."YET"
etc.
Attitude : Anti-Fragile
To Students: Where are you on this Scale?
Scale -5: Fragile: When random things break you
Scale 0: Resilient: When random things affect you very little
Scale +5: Anti-Fragile: When random things make you thrive!!
So:
- Rise and Meet things.
- Take Risks
- Put your Skin in the Game
- Be Antifragile!
Maurice Leloir (1851-1940)