YouTube as Anticipatory Set in Teacher Education

How a Cute Baby Animal Video Led to Educational

Theory Discussions

Indiana State University

Susan GubelmanPh.D. CandidateCurriculum, Instruction, and Media Technology

Setting the Tone • Novel, unexpected approach

• Personal experiences

• Humor

• Dramatic reading

• Invoke a sense of mystery

• Use media Driscoll, M. Psychology of learning for instruction. Boston, MA. Pearson.

Purpose

• Activate students’ knowledge base

• Build interest in the lesson

• 3 to 5 minute videos = inspiration

• Produce energy in the classroom

Significance• Schuck (1969) concluded that students whose teachers were

trained in the use of set induction “will achieve significantly higher than those exposed to teachers not trained in this instructional skill” (Schuck, p. 792). Educational psychologist David Ausebel spent much of his career advocating for the use of advance organizers, and his theories were further refined and supported by other research, both focused studies (Townsend, & Clarihew, 1989) and broad meta-analyses (Luiten, Ames, & Ackerson, 1980). In four studies analyzed by Robert Marzano and his colleagues, students whose instruction included advance organizers showed percentile gains ranging from 9 to 29 points (Marzano, Pickering & Pollock, 2001, p. 117). Those numbers are definitely enough to justify making anticipatory sets a regular part of your practice.

In a nutshell...

• Creative use of the Anticipatory Set results in higher achieving students

Successful Teaching

The result of skilled planning

or is it?

Anticipatory Set

“burst of inspiration”

Hunter and Russell, 2006

One Day…

Best Practices classroom

Instructional Objectives

• Assessing learners’ needs

• Learning & development theoriesoPiaget, Vygotsky

• Teaching techniques

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The video

The edited version

Previous Knowledge:Educational Theorists

Piaget: Cognitive DevelopmentVygotsky: Social DevelopmentGardner: Multiple IntelligencesBandura: Self Efficacy

Building New Knowledge: Pedagogy Skills

Needs assessment

Scaffolding

Behavioral objectives

Bloom’s Taxonomy

Practical Applications

• Subject areas • Grade levels

science

music language arts

health/PE

social studies artforeign language

The Lesson

• Deeper understanding of learning theories

• Further reflection on best practices

Follow Up

• Discussions led not by the structure of the textbook, but by the curiosity and insights of students

Finding videos• https://www.youtube.com/user/teachers

YouTube Embedding Tool

educanon.com

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A good teacher, like a good entertainer, first must hold the audience’s attention, then he can teach the lesson.

-From John Henrik Clarke

sgubelman@sycamores.indstate.edu

YouTube as Anticipatory Set in Teacher EducationHow a Cute Baby Animal Video

Led to Educational Theory Discussions