{"id":64,"date":"2007-12-12T00:42:53","date_gmt":"2007-12-12T00:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/?p=64"},"modified":"2007-12-12T00:42:53","modified_gmt":"2007-12-12T00:42:53","slug":"modeling-instead-of-teaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/2007\/12\/modeling-instead-of-teaching\/","title":{"rendered":"Modeling instead of &#8220;teaching&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read on <a href=\"http:\/\/halfanhour.blogspot.com\/2007\/12\/these-principles.html\" target=\"_blank\">Stephen Downes&#8217; blog<\/a> today, on a completely different subject, the phrase:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I have argued in many places that &#8216;to teach&#8217; is &#8216;to model and to demonstrate&#8217;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It fits right in with the new approach I&#8217;m considering for next semester, based partly on the exegesis of text. In this case, it would be holy text, but rather historical documents.<\/p>\n<p>My classes thus far have been organized around:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>lectures &#8212; in class or online with audio\/text\/images\n<li>textbook &#8212; a secondary source for getting the historical narrative and the interpretation of historians\n<li>primary sources &#8212; to use as support or evidence for historical theses\n<li>discussion &#8212; based on &#8220;ticklers&#8221; designed to elicit response, then analysis, and\n<li>assessments &#8212; both self-assessments for participation and quizzes for content and analysis<\/ul>\n<p>Although my lectures may &#8220;model&#8221; what historians do in the sense of producing an interpretation, it is not apparent how I develop such a lecture. Nor am I modeling any kind of analysis of text myself, expecially in the classroom.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lisahistory.net\/images\/teacher.png?w=648\" align=\"left\" vspace=\"9\" hspace=\"8\">So I&#8217;m thinking of a new approach next semester, first in the classroom and then possibly online. I am considering spending substantial class time with the primary sources. Instead of giving each one to a group for analysis (and approach I&#8217;ve used before with limited success) my &#8220;lecture&#8221; will be me taking them through the document, commenting as I create my own analysis. It will be primarily extemporaneous (I may use some margin notes). It should &#8220;show&#8221; students how historians work.<\/p>\n<p>Still thinking on this one&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read on Stephen Downes&#8217; blog today, on a completely different subject, the phrase: I have argued in many places that &#8216;to teach&#8217; is &#8216;to model and to demonstrate&#8217;. It fits right in with the new approach I&#8217;m considering for next semester, based partly on the exegesis of text. In this case, it would be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pedagogy","category-presentation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}