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Sarah Wilkinson: My name is Sarah Wilkinson, and my idea of teacher heaven, is teachers
showing up to class, excited to learn, and engaging with the material, and going home
and telling their friends and family all about it, and then applying it well with their clients
to change health for the better. That's my idea of teacher heaven.
I reinvented my classroom by being inspired by other teachers by creating online YouTube
videos for their students, and other students around the world. And, I wanted to do the
same, because there weren't any videos by publishers, or by other professors in my topic
areas. I teach physiology, exercise physiology and health promotion, where students need
to do more than just listen to me lecture. And, what the videos allow me to do is, students
watch them before class, come to class, and they're ready and able. And, we have time
to do problem- based learning and case studies, and other activities that really deepen their
learning, and make their learning a lot more fun. So, this is the flipped classroom.
And, that's how I've reinvented my classroom.
Craig Crane: My name is Craig Crane, and my idea of teacher heaven is to passionately
teach, and enjoy what I do, and engage with the students in producing, and changing the
world through design. I reinvented the classroom by building an eco-cabin. I teach, architectural
detailing, and building construction methodologies and systems to interior design students. So
the idea was that, to learn, you really need to learn by doing, so I wanted to introduce
experiential learning, or action learning into my classroom, and I chose module 2 in
the BINT 404 class. And, that class is building construction, or how do you build with wood-frame
technology. Design can build a proto-typical eco-cabin for the whole village group, near
Orangeville. The whole village group came down after the cabin was built, and took it
apart or deconstructed it, and they drove it back to Orangeville. And, this spring,
or sometime in June I believe, its going up again in this beautiful scenic area, as part
of a little retreat village they're building, and we're also going up this August with some
volunteers to design and proto-type their second cabin in their barn, we're going to
live on the site. And it's going to be a great experience, and keep the project going. And
that is how I reinvented my classroom.
Lynda Hausman: Teacher heaven is having all the students motivated, engaged, and working
through the course material, helping each other, and working with me and loving it.
That's teacher heaven.
I reinvented the learning in the classroom by changing the teaching model. So in the
past, what I've done is to do demonstrations where I teach something, show the students
how I do it, and then give them a lab, and let them apply that learning. So what I've
done instead is to take the content of the course and convert that into a quest based
learning model. And that means that the content is converted into a chain of quests. So, it
could be a video, it could be a page of instructions, it could be a tutorial. And the students then
follow that chain of quests, and they're able to self-direct their own learning so that
they can choose a different path through the quest. Some can work a faster pace, some can
work at a slower pace, and they're able to motivate themselves, and to self-direct their
learning. There's badges, there's achievements, there's experience points, and it functions
basically kind of like a game. And that's how I've reinvented the learning in the classroom.