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Building a Better Classroom: Postmodern Teaching in a NeXt-Rated Classroom
Thursday, March 23, 2006, noon - 1 pm
Dr. Pat Casello
This class will explore generational differences in learning styles and will provide specific insights for working with the Postmodern generation or "Generation Next."
  1. Introduction
    1. Being an Educator
    2. Diverse Student Base of Adult Learners
      Adult Learners: 4 Types
      1. Traditionals
      2. Baby Boomers
      3. Generation X
      4. Generation NeXt/Millenials - Students/Postmoderns
  2. Improve Learning for Post Moderns and/or Diverse Student Classrooms
    1. Diverse Adult Learner Groups - different needs and expectations for different students in the same class
      1. Concerns - Opposed Learning Styles, Opposition to Traditional/Lecture Teaching Styles, Incivility
      2. Strengths - Mentoring, Adaptability
    2. Some of the general defining characteristics of the Post Modern/Millenium Student Base
      • Consumer Orientation
      • Entertainment Orientation
      • Entitlement
      • Negotiation
      • Intellectually Disengaged
      • Selective Risk Taking
      • Technoliterate
    3. Solutions
      1. Brainstorm Pair Sharing
        1. Negotiation
        2. Incivility
      2. Large Group Share
  3. Classroom Experiments - What are Others Doing?
  4. References and Attachments

 
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