Consider – Teaching

 

Consider, for instance, the problem "How can I increase learning with my teaching process?"

Following the SCAMPER recipe, here are a few questions you could ask:

·                                 S (Substitute): "What can I substitute in my teaching process?"

• Substitute student effort for my effort

·                                 C (Combine): "How can I combine teaching with other activities?"

• Combine teaching with preparation of teaching and learning materials by having students prepare materials (for their on teaching of other students)

·                                 A (Adapt): "What can I adapt or copy from someone else’s teaching process?"

• Ask students what are the best features of teaching they ever saw

·                                 M (Magnify): "What can I magnify or put more emphasis on when teaching?"

• Magnify the attention to building and maintaining good human relationships

·                                 P (Put to Other Uses): "How can I put my teaching to other uses?"

• Use teaching to learn about other things of interest to you

·                                 E (Eliminate): "What can I eliminate or simplify in my teaching process?"

• Eliminate or simplify by having students always self assess, and share the results, before you assess their work

·                                 R (Rearrange): "How can I change, reorder or reverse the way I teach?"

• Seeing is believing – to – I will see that when I believe it!
• Learn from experience…..Learn first, in order to experience it