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CARROUSEL TEACHING SESSION
Carrousel teaching sessions is a teacher training and faculty development technique
whereby the teacher reviews a recording of a teaching session, in order to get
constructive feedback from peers and/or students about what has worked and what
improvements can be made to their teaching technique. Micro-teaching was invented
in the mid-1960s at Stanford University by Dr. Dwight W. Allen, and has subsequently
been used to develop educators in all forms of education.
REFLECTION:
mmmmm The
Carrousel
teaching
helped me with my confidence as a teacher
“banking
concept,” sessions
as
by Freire,
is this methodology I tried to improve my vocabulary
with termed
my students.
With
an act that
and essentially
I got less nervous
with them. I felt more comfortable in that class.
hinders the intellectual
growth of students by
turning them into,
figuratively speaking,
comatose “receptors”
and “collectors” of
information that have
no real connection to
their lives.
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