Good Teaching Mind Map

1. Autonomy

2. Provide strategies for students to connect what they learned in one context and apply it to a new and different context.

3. Make information meaningful through student-centered activities.

3.1. Hands on, interactive

3.2. Learn by doing

3.3. Engaging

4. Enable students to find success by meeting their intellectual and emotional needs.

4.1. Inclusion

4.2. Accomodate to a variety of learners

4.3. Flexible to everyone's needs

5. Integrate intellectual, technical, and practical habits of mind when teaching.

6. Empower students to to build upon their current interactions with music.

7. Love who we educate

8. Place emphasis on spontaneity and self-activity and educate the whole child.

9. Theories

9.1. Critical Pedagogy

9.2. Music Theory Learning

9.3. Zone of Proximal Development

9.4. Progressivism

10. Learning through problem solving

10.1. Problem solving is an opportunity for learning

10.2. Use of collaborative problem solving - benefits from others' perspectives

11. Zone of Proximal Development

11.1. Skills too difficult for a child to master on his/her own but can be done with guidance and encouragement from a knowledgeable person

12. Scaffolding vs. Discovery Learning

12.1. Students perform better with help rather than working independently

13. Critical Pedagogy

13.1. Empowering your students

13.2. crating a connection between teacher and students

13.3. understanding that all students learn differently

14. Aestheticism

14.1. Created by Bennett Reimer

14.2. Focuses on reacting emotionally to a piece of music depending on the qualities of the piece/song

14.3. Use of Aesthetic Perception - connection to recognize the formal qualities of a piece

14.4. Use of Aesthetic reaction - physical reaction to a musical work (crying). It can't be expressed through words and can't be taught directly

14.5. Aesthetic Education - used to develop systematically every student's ability to have an aesthetic experience

15. Summarize, predict, clarify and question your students so they can think, feel, and act critically.

15.1. Create organized lesson plans

15.2. Simple to complex

15.3. Concrete to abstract

16. Use the knowledge and experiences students bring to the classroom as a bridge to new learning.

17. Yield transformational experiences for both the students and their teacher.

18. Let education encompass a depth and breadth of knowledge that creates a life-long understanding within a social and historical context.

19. Seize teachable moments

20. Personality is sacred

21. Equilibrium between the head, heart, and hands.

22. Qualities of a Teacher

22.1. Compassionate

22.2. Accepting/Understanding

22.3. Patient

22.4. Accomodating

22.5. A role model

22.6. Engaged/energetic

22.7. Positive

22.8. Well-prepared

23. Notable People

23.1. Paulo Freire

23.2. Vygotsky

23.3. Dewey

23.4. Ruth Bader Ginsburg

23.5. Mr. Rogers

23.6. Martin Luther King Jr.

24. Theory of Scaffolding

24.1. Consists of the activities provided by the educator, or more competent peer, to support the student

24.2. Support is tapered as it becomes unnecessary

24.3. Scaffolding is most important when the support is matched to the needs of the learner.

25. Theory of Flow

25.1. Created by Csikszentmihayal

25.2. When are students most in the theory of groove?

25.3. Similar to the Theory of Scaffolding

25.4. Provide your students with scaffolding to get them back in the "flow channel"

25.5. Know your students and make tasks flexible

26. Praxialism

26.1. Created by David Elliott

26.2. Highlights the actions of music.

26.3. Music has a sense of meaning due to the use of human activity

26.4. A full understanding of the significance of music is much more than the understanding of pieces or works of music

26.5. Praxialism emphasizes the meanings and values in music-making, listening, and the outcomes in cultures.