Pedagogy Puns

In the 70's I took a number of Religion courses through the local University. At that time Joseph Campbell and Mircea Eliade were pretty core. I recently took an online class at the same University and found that Campbell and Eliade are no longer taught and were in real disfavor. Apart from some claims of misogyny that seemed from what I've read a bit thin and very little to do with his teachings not sure why that happened. I was also told that religion is what people do, not what they believe, and the course seemed centered on a sociological approach. Does this represent the state of religion teaching now in the US?

title! while it's obviously quite possible to struggle through most content, i wonder if that remains necessary? for many of us who are not playing or studying music from this era, illustration of concepts with music, notation, and convention that's not familiar make this perhaps more arduous than it might be.

are there resources for going deeper into the study of modern applications of harmony that aren't so deeply rooted in satb?

Hello everyone I'm a secondary school maths teacher. Could you recommend me some books that can enlighten me more about teaching strategies and how to be able to deliver a good maths lesson.

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Apologies for the poetic title but I needed something eye-catching.

I'm currently leading a small team of backend engineers, without any knowledge of fintech. As for me, I've worked on several systems in a certain financial tech company (do not ask me where). Our team has grown enough that we can now start taking on the risk of migrating our "prototype" code into something more stable, most especially due to the fact that maintaining a singular monolith is a pain in the ass, and that Node.JS is not a very good language to begin with for most of our use cases.

The tried and tested language for financial systems is, obviously, Java. Sitting on the plateau of productivity in the hype curve, the language itself is easy to teach. Teaching the frameworks to be used shouldn't be too difficult either as there are a lot of resources online already (for example, Spring).

Scala has been very popular, commonly used for its Akka framework. The problem with Scala is that not only is the language itself hard to teach (FP), Akka (the framework) is ALSO very difficult to learn. While Scala and Akka sit in the slope of enlightenment (IMO) in the hype curve, I believe this would be the best language and framework combo, moving forward with the company.

There's also Kotlin, which is gaining traction due to being "better Java". I checked it out and it IS more productive Java. However my problem with Kotlin is that it's not easy to teach unless the dev is already familiar with Java due to its various syntactic sugar and (in my opinion hard-to-understand) idioms and other shorthand statements. Another problem is that Kotlin for backend currently sits in the peak of inflated expectations, ie the honeymoon phase. It still feels like a toy language to me. There aren't a lot of resources either for backend-related development, mostly due to the fact that the popular frameworks are ports of Java ones (like Spring, VertX, etc)

Go might be a good language, but I'm not informed enough to make a decision.

So for the people who have been in my position, how did you end up deciding on the tech stacks? I want my reports to not only learn in our company, but also leave as highly-skilled individuals who will be sought after.

Thanks for all the responses.

Hi all,

For the longest while, I’ve been wondering what makes a good “coaching” session.

To prepare for this post, I've tried to search if there have been any other relevant discussions and I came across a post made by u/Superf1cial. They had a statement that I'd like to share:

> A good coach is qualified by [....] being able to properly teach people and to properly prioritize mistakes to fix. The last one is usually the difference between a good coach and a really great one.

What does it mean to "properly teach"?

My situation: gold player who wants to climb the ladder. Most of the content I view on YouTube for coaching are VOD reviews with the coach giving the player(s) feedback and action points based on what they’ve observed during the match. One technique I’ve seen (from PECO coaches) is that they’ll ask the player for some context - which I like, because it gives some “epistemology” to the session, ie, it highlights some previous experience/knowledge of the player to give some context to the coaches.

Here’s a brief list of some things I like about this VOD review process and some things I don't:

The Good

• Real examples
• Can see collective
• It's your gameplay
• Pacing (replay features)

The Improvable

• Often too long
• Too much talking
• Too much information

Before I go any further, I should mention that I’ve been struggling with the concept of coaching sessions in Overwatch. I’ve seen and gotten coached enough to know that the general pedagogy (how things are taught) of OW coaching for people in my shoes isn’t effective to my learning and improvement. Recently I’ve asked my coaches for schemas, which is a fancy way of saying categories of gameplay to focus on in my practice (eg position, mechanics, ult tracking, etc). These are fantastic, however, I’m being given 4-6 points per category. If you’re given 6 schemas, that’s going to be 24-36 action points to work on! That’s too much information to strategically implement without guided practice. As artifacts of improvement to build a learning portfolio, these are great. However, it’s a big ask for someone to walk away with 9+ chunks/pieces of detailed information to remember AND act on.

I should also mention that I’ve been a language and dance instructor for about 10 years now, having taught in some parts of SE Asia

How do they teach percussion in college? When you learn drums whether via instruction or being self taught, you usually start off by listening to music and copying the drummer. So, most people listen to famous drummers and learn their style by playing their lines. Reading music is ultra important in percussion, so percussion is probably not learned as much by ear. So, what are the fundamental percussion classes and what do they teach you? Who do you listen to for inspiration? What did I miss?

I live in the USA and have an MAT (master in the art of teaching Spanish).

Throughout this research, it is explored how teacher education programs are formed in relation to academic content and pedagogy. Analysis from researchers indicate that a social justice pedagogy must be integrated throughout a teacher education program.

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“Critical Pedagogy (CP) is an approach to language teaching and learning which, according to Kincheloe (2005), is concerned with transforming relations of power which are oppressive and which lead to the oppression of people.”

“The most important theme in CP is the belief that education systems are political. As McLaren asserts, the major concern of CP is the centrality of politics and power in our understanding of how schools work.”

“To Giroux, it is essential to make everyday experience problematic and critical by revealing its hidden political assumptions.”

Hi!

I am a future educator and I'm doing research on pedagogy just to stay informed and educated on anything possible to help me be a better educator in the future, although who knows how it will be once I am a teacher. But the point is I want to be educated in all possible aspects.

In your opinion, what is something you wish you knew before being a teacher?

What should I research into order to be educated before going into the classroom, pedagogy-wise or something that isn't even pedagogy related?

Anything is appreciated!

*FYI I do plan on being a secondary education, ELA teacher*

I only took a single education class before deciding to be a teacher. I have a preliminary HS social studies credential but I've been away from the game since Covid closures first hit.

I'm starting to prepare for the job search and I realize I still can't describe the WHYs of some of the things I do for my lesson plans. My credential program was poor and I was an even worse student. I could just put on a show that seemed like I knew what I was doing

Any recommendations for the closest thing to an all in one pedagogy book?

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McKernan (2013) states that critical theory seeks to explain and understand society to create change and liberate individuals from oppression. Originally introduced by the Frankfurt .

I'm taking a coarse on reading for an endorsement. It we read an article on getting students involved and doing what's important to them. Generally a good idea. The assignment was a discussion post about how you get students interested. I posted how I asked students what kinds of work they wanted to do and did that. They wanted to watch true crime, so that's what we did (inferences and evidence). They wanted to watch SpongeBob so we watched the first episode and showed how the characters have changed over time. I was given a 0. Meanwhile most people put "show rap for poetry" "read Tupac's poetry" or "make problems about basketball" or "write essays about shoes" and got 100s.

98% of my students are black. But a lot of the girls listen to kpop instead of rap. A lot of them listen to just normal pop music. One boy loves Taylor swift. It just feels sus to me that people think being relevant to black students has to just be about rap. The point of CRP is to get to know your individual students and provide opportunities for them to be interested. Our students listen to rap and play basketball and both of those have important cultural histories in the black community but it feels like stereotyping kids instead of listening to them defeats the purpose.

Maybe I'm wrong. Someone explain of I am please. But these classes give me a weird vibe every time.

When Snape taught Potions, did he teach “by the book,” or did he recommend the alternative methods similar to the ones he scribbled in the potions book Harry finds?

Has anyone taken Contemporary Pedagogy or any classes w Homero Murzi Escobar? Any info would be appreciated.

Hello! I'm a music educator and I'm working on developing out some music literacy learning systems (mostly modifications of existing ones) with a specific eye for addressing the weaknesses in popular systems without changing the fundamentals. The specific goal is to expand the system I'm currently working with to include compatibility with contemporary and non-European music (with things like better handling of syncopation, swing, and complex meters).

Right now I'm working on rhythmic counting, and I'd like to hear your thoughts on rhythmic counting systems. These are things like Eastman (1-ta-te), Numbers (1-la-le), Takadimi (ta-ki-da), Tatiki (ta-tu-te),Kodaly (tri-o-la), and the like. If you would please answer some of my questions, it would help focus my work in a more informed direction.

1. What rhythmic counting system did you learn the most with?
2. As a practising musician, what system do you use the most often or find the most helpful?
3. If any, what features would you want a rhythmic syllable system to include?
4. Do you find rhythm or meter to be more important to the musical experience?

If you could also mention your level of formal music education and preferred musical genre, that would be greatly appreciated.

One thing that really annoys me is the use of slogans in pedagogy. By this, I mean a snappy phrase that supposedly contain some absolute truth about teaching.

One that really annoys me is one that can be translated to: "Students who are well will do well." It sounds better in my language, but what it means is that students need to be happy and have a safe environment in order to do well in school.

Now, this is often true. But I know of so many examples of it not being true at all. I have had dozens of students (I teach mostly 13-16 year olds), who are doing absolutely fine in all areas of life, except that they don't care about doing well in school. For these student, the fact that they excel in sports, are popular among their friends and perhaps already have a side job that they do really well at is actually a hindrance. Why apply yourself at the one thing that requires a little bit of work, when you just naturally succeed at everything else. If you have valued skills and connections, you don't really need amazing grades to get a decent job.

Then there are the top students I have had. A lot of these are not doing well at all. An alarming number of my best students suffer from anxiety, bipolar disorder and eating disorders. For these students, academic achievement is the one thing that give them a bit of self esteem and a sense of control.

Perhaps the most gifted student I have ever met was a 14 year old girl whose project I assessed, because she was being moved to a new institution by social services (the reasons for her being in an institution and her abrupt move were unknown to me). I was absolutely floored. I wrote a glowing recommendation to her new teacher.

I only met that girl the once. Her move was so abrupt that her regular teacher did not have time to assess her project, and she really wanted to show it to someone before she was relocated. The girl was confident while presenting (in a foreign language) and obviously proud of her work, but you could easily see that she was not happy about her situation, that she was sad about her regular teacher not being there to see her off and that she was stressed.

When I told her how genuinely impressed I was, she was really happy and she had what I assumed was one of very few happy moments that week.

Not only is this slogan false in my experience, it also seems to imply that wellness is only a means to an end. Get well, so you can get those good grades. Mental health and a safe school and home lif

I’m doing a class for uni students where the students will be divided into groups. They will be reading scholarly articles and trying to find answers to 3 questions I provide them with.

What kind of questions do you use to guide and direct the students when you are circling the class during group work?

We will also be having a discussion at the end of the class. Are there any tools/ways you use the activate the students to raise questions?

This is my first time teaching so I am pretty nervous.

Hello everyone I'm a secondary school maths teacher. Could you recommend me some books that can enlighten me more about teaching strategies and how to be able to deliver a good maths lesson.

I also want to ask if there is any group for secondary maths that I can join to get benefit from others' experience

Thank you 😊

Thank you ☺️

Throughout this research, it is explored how teacher education programs are formed in relation to academic content and pedagogy. Analysis from researchers indicate that a social justice pedagogy must be integrated throughout a teacher education program.