Good Teaching Mind Map
by Francesca Fioravanti
1. Summarize, predict, clarify and question your students so they can think, feel, and act critically.
1.1. Create organized lesson plans
1.2. Simple to complex
1.3. Concrete to abstract
2. Use the knowledge and experiences students bring to the classroom as a bridge to new learning.
3. Autonomy
4. Provide strategies for students to connect what they learned in one context and apply it to a new and different context.
5. Make information meaningful through student-centered activities.
5.1. Hands on, interactive
5.2. Learn by doing
5.3. Engaging
6. Yield transformational experiences for both the students and their teacher.
7. Enable students to find success by meeting their intellectual and emotional needs.
7.1. Inclusion
7.2. Accomodate to a variety of learners
7.3. Flexible to everyone's needs
8. Let education encompass a depth and breadth of knowledge that creates a life-long understanding within a social and historical context.
9. Integrate intellectual, technical, and practical habits of mind when teaching.
10. Seize teachable moments
11. Empower students to to build upon their current interactions with music.
12. Love who we educate
13. Personality is sacred
14. Place emphasis on spontaneity and self-activity and educate the whole child.
15. Equilibrium between the head, heart, and hands.
16. Qualities of a Teacher
16.1. Compassionate
16.2. Accepting/Understanding
16.3. Patient
16.4. Accomodating
16.5. A role model
16.6. Engaged/energetic
16.7. Positive
16.8. Well-prepared
17. Notable People
17.1. Paulo Freire
17.2. Vygotsky
17.3. Dewey
17.4. Ruth Bader Ginsburg
17.5. Mr. Rogers
17.6. Martin Luther King Jr.
18. Theory of Scaffolding
18.1. Consists of the activities provided by the educator, or more competent peer, to support the student
18.2. Support is tapered as it becomes unnecessary
18.3. Scaffolding is most important when the support is matched to the needs of the learner.
19. Theory of Flow
19.1. Created by Csikszentmihayal
19.2. When are students most in the theory of groove?
19.3. Similar to the Theory of Scaffolding
19.4. Provide your students with scaffolding to get them back in the "flow channel"
19.5. Know your students and make tasks flexible
20. Theories
20.1. Critical Pedagogy
20.2. Music Theory Learning
20.3. Zone of Proximal Development
20.4. Progressivism
21. Learning through problem solving
21.1. Problem solving is an opportunity for learning
21.2. Use of collaborative problem solving - benefits from others' perspectives
22. Zone of Proximal Development
22.1. Skills too difficult for a child to master on his/her own but can be done with guidance and encouragement from a knowledgeable person
23. Scaffolding vs. Discovery Learning
23.1. Students perform better with help rather than working independently
24. Critical Pedagogy
24.1. Empowering your students
24.2. crating a connection between teacher and students
24.3. understanding that all students learn differently
25. Praxialism
25.1. Created by David Elliott
25.2. Highlights the actions of music.
25.3. Music has a sense of meaning due to the use of human activity
25.4. A full understanding of the significance of music is much more than the understanding of pieces or works of music
25.5. Praxialism emphasizes the meanings and values in music-making, listening, and the outcomes in cultures.
26. Aestheticism
26.1. Created by Bennett Reimer
26.2. Focuses on reacting emotionally to a piece of music depending on the qualities of the piece/song
26.3. Use of Aesthetic Perception - connection to recognize the formal qualities of a piece
26.4. Use of Aesthetic reaction - physical reaction to a musical work (crying). It can't be expressed through words and can't be taught directly
26.5. Aesthetic Education - used to develop systematically every student's ability to have an aesthetic experience