"How Do You Know?"

We're 'wired' to believe what we hear or see. "Trust but verify." Perhaps the epitome of failure occurred during the space shuttle Challenger flight. A fuel leak around 'low thermal tolerance' "O-Rings" caused a fiery explosion. Engineering 'knew' yet nobody knew enough to reschedule the launch. 

The rhetorical question becomes, "how do you know?" By extension, coaches ask:

1) What's the best way to teach? 

2) What's the best way to learn? 

3) Think again that no one way may be best for everyone.

Considerations:

• Visual learning, watch video or demonstrations
• Attend a lecture 
• Participate in active learning (e.g. laboratory or project)
• Prepare and deliver a lecture

In Think Again, Adam Grant shares that students' grades rose 'half a grade' with active learning. Twenty percent of grades in his class came from student projects, lessons, or videos. One group of students did a brief "TED Talk" entitled "The Problem with TED Talks." 

How good is your teaching? Penn Professors learned feedback from student versions of Mean Tweets.

 

Have a goal not of "best practices" but better practices. 

Lagniappe. Be intentional in warmup.