Visualize Your Teaching offers a unique way of helping educators see their own teaching so they can strengthen their practice.
Author Kyle Ezell uses a series of simple but compelling black and white graphics to take you through teaching’s parts, flows, and signals. He demonstrates that it’s important to be aware of what’s happening when playing distinctly different parts as you teach, depending on the context. Flows connect parts together over a lesson. He shows how to visualize the impact of how flows connect over a range of circumstances. You also need to be aware of how you respond to many different signals that appear, pushing and pulling the lesson plan.
Appropriate for teachers of all grade levels and subject areas, the book provides teaching scenario prompts for you to practice playing all the parts through self-observation and opportunities for you to diagram your own teaching. As you work through the pages, you’ll be able to visualize your performance the way athletes do, becoming more in tune with yourself. With this book as your batting cage, you will be increasing your impact on students in no time!
Author(s): Kyle Ezell
Publisher: Routledge/Eye on Education
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 162
City: New York
Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
About the Author
Foreword
Preface
Introduction: “The Feeling” Students Get from Your Teaching
Parts
Flows
Signals
Teaching as Performing
Drawing’s Energy
Teaching Charrettes
Self-Observation and Teacher Intuition
An Uncovering
How to Get Ready
1. Parts: 12 That Teachers Play (Run through 50 Performances)
Framing and Drilling Parts
Playing Parts in Practice
Part Profiles
My Part Specs, Your Part Specs
The Parts Wheel
Student Needs Quads
The Trust Wheel
The Presence Wheel
Framing Part Decisions
Drilling Part Decisions
How to Self-Observe Your Teaching
Parts Recap
2. Know Your Flows, Then Spot the Signals (and Practice Responding to Dozens)
“A Flow” and “Being in a Flow State”
Signals Constantly Appear
Scanning for Signals
Spotting and Interpreting Signals
Flows and Signals Details
Hemisphere Flows
Smooth Flows
Jarring Flows
No Flows and Many Signals
Before You Leave Chapter 2
Final Thoughts on Flows and Signals
3. “See,” Then Draw (or Doodle) Your Teaching (with 10 Teaching Stories)
#1: Teach Susan with Her Mind Suddenly on Fire
#2: Flailing Team B
#3: Connie. Friend or Educator? Teach Her Next Class
#4 Samir’s Epiphany Today Set Me in Motion
#5: Teaching Ambitious Amber and Joyous Jonie
#6: Send a Positive Jolt into the Classroom
#7: All They Needed Was a Little TLC
#8: Amna-in-the Zone
#9: Try to Encourage Jittery Jim
#10: I Tried Hard Directing Team D!
Bonus Diagram
Afterword: Go Forth and Prosper
