LECTURES "HOW TO TEACH AT JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL"
We will be happy to come to your region to hold a lecture or debate on “How to teach at the Junior High School”. The first cycle of lectures took place 2 years ago in Prague and was divided into three parts:
- How to teach so that the learning process goes through the head, hands and heart
- What is important to learn and what is not
- How to make it into reality under the current conditions
Topics can be summarized in two longer lectures. Or it is possible to focus on an individual sub-topic (see below) that is suitable for your situation at school.
Possible topics about upbringing and education of children at the Junior High School
- About parents’ relationship with their teens
- Puberty and what it means for teaching and upbringing at home and at school
- Educating boys and girls during adolescence – what are boy’s and girl’s needs
- Teacher’s authority at the Junior High School – about personality, boundaries, rules and improvisation
- What children enjoy during adolescence, what not and why. What works, what can be unhealthy or dangerous
- What topics in individual subjects and what activities resonate with the age of children at the Junior High School
- Evaluation, internal and external motivation of children in the period before puberty and in puberty
- How much and what children need to be learned from the subject matter and what is not necessary
- What does the Junior High School look like in a specific type of alternative school (Waldorf, Montessori, Democratic School, Nature school)
Topics possible to be discussed (aiming at different aspects of teaching):
- Freedom and its limits – what is and what is not allowed, rules and how to agree on them, discipline
- Who is in charge of what is going on – what is the teacher’s responsibility to decide and where is the student’s free zone
- Supporting students who differ and finding their place in the class
- Inner differentiation in bigger or heterogeneous classrooms, division into groups
- Teachers cooperation, aligning the interests and wishes of the school management team and parents of the students
- Examinations and testing
- New teachers on-boarding and training
- How to inspire students for sciences – how to think about scientific experiments
- How to inspire students for humanities – how to think about individual and society
- How to balance intellectual studies, physical activity and arts
- How to enable students to be part of a school decision making processes
- How to excite students for maths and adjust different levels of students abilities
- Teaching in projects – topic choosing, preparation, realization, reflection, connection to the rest of the school
- Critical thinking and its place in junior high school
- Meaningful work with electronics
- Media education for junior high school
- Balanced timetable and year plan – from the students and teachers point of view, from the school budget perspective
- How to present what we do to the outside world – to the authorities or members of the family with different opinions