Vygotsky Podcast31 Jul 2020

(S1,Ep11) Meaningful Learning, Creative Teaching with Michael Smith

Looking to rethink, retool, or redesign your teaching? Michael W. Smith excels at making learning challenging, meaningful, and fun. I know this from personal experience. (Originally published April 17, 2020 at Chats about CHT http://tiny.cc/kmylsz)

Highlights include:

1:07 - What jumps to mind when I think of Michael Smith

2:26 - Michael's current work: Essential Question-driven urban, college-prep focused

5:52 - The clever use Semantic Differential Scales as a motivating "easy in"

9:18 - Initiating students into academic "communities of practice"

12:36 - Using Simulated Texts as case-study data (and a great personal story)

17:35 - The merits of Inquiry and Environmental Instruction (a Hillocksian approach)

19:11 - Incentives to write your own simulated texts

23:55 - The Inquiry Square -- a great way to re-tool or revise your teaching

32:49 - "Argument" in the classroom vs. argument in the world ("rational" dojo vs "persuasive" street)

39:57 - "Bad teaching I have done" -- revisiting the Inquiry Square

42:52 - "The heart of the matter" -- Michael's breakthrough and the inquiry square's role in it (Catcher in the Rye "Simulation Games")

53:09 - How about the role of function?

56:30 - Salience! Levels and Dimensions of Setting (and 'Setting as rule-setting')

1:04:00 - The unity and interplay of literary elements (setting, character, conflict, theme)

1:09:01 - Reading people (real and fictional) - revising gut impressions

References of interest:

Some of Michael's books - http://tiny.cc/7k08mz

"Remembering George Hillocks, Jr. 1934-2014" - http://tiny.cc/ha08mz

"Teaching Writing to Adolescents" - http://tiny.cc/wz08mz

"Why Rational Persuasion is a Martial Art" - http://tiny.cc/jh08mz

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