1. TYPES OF TEACHING
Kurt Love, Ph.D.
Central Connecticut State University

2. WHAT KIND OF A TEACHER
DO YOU WANT TO BE?

3. WHAT DO YOU NEED TO KNOW
SO YOU CAN GET THERE?

4. WHAT DO STUDENTS WANT
FROM THEIR TEACHERS?

5. TYPES OF TEACHERS
What types of teachers are there?
• Top-down/Transmitter
• Technician/Robotic
• Director/Conductor
• Coach
• Creative/Artist
• Community Explorer

6. ONE TEACHER’S IMPACT
• High 5 for Mr. C

7. MR. C
What type of teacher is Mr. C?
• Top-down/Transmitter
• Technician/Robotic
• Director/Conductor
• Coach
• Creative/Artist
• Community Explorer

8. PURPOSES OF EDUCATION
• Why school?
• What purpose does public
education serve?

9. PURPOSES OF SCHOOL
• Why school?
• What purpose does public
education serve?

10. PURPOSES OF SCHOOL
• Why school?
• What purpose does public
education serve?

11. PURPOSES OF SCHOOL
• Why school?
• What purpose does public
education serve?

12. PURPOSES OF SCHOOL
• Why school?
• What purpose does public
education serve?

13. PURPOSES OF SCHOOL
• Why school?
• What purpose does public
education serve?

14. PURPOSES OF EDUCATION
Prepare Creative Critically
Workers Individuals Question
Follow Fun Promote
Directions Diversity
Inspiring
Know Strengthen
Content Problem Community
Solvers

15. TYPES OF EDUCATION
What types of education are there?
• Traditional
• Liberal/Progressive
• Transformative

16. SUPPORTING ALL STUDENTS

17. SUPPORTING ALL STUDENTS
What type of teaching practices will
support all students, especially
those who have been traditionally
marginalized?
• Traditional
• Liberal/Progressive
• Transformative

18. TRADITIONAL EDUCATION
• Top-down transmission of
knowledge
• Behaviorist
• Rote memorization
• Test-driven
• Students dislike school/teacher
when this type of teaching is
predominate

19. LIBERAL/PROGRESSIVE
EDUCATION
• Constructivist
• Connect with prior
knowledge
• Student interests
• Test-oriented
• Students more favorable
towards school/teacher

20. TRANSFORMATIVE
EDUCATION
• Embedded in community &
Authentic participation
• Critical Constructivism
• Critical questioning
• Fulfilling the whole student
• Students highly engaged/invested -
very high quality performance/
outcomes

21. TRANSFORMATIVE
EDUCATION
• Describe Wink’s experience
teaching struggling students in
Spanish class (pp. 14-15, 33-36).
• What steps did she actually
take?
• How did a transformative
approach affect her students?
• Why did it affect them in this
way?

22. WHAT IS A
TRANSFORMATIVE EDUCATION?
Transformative education exists at the nexus of:
Human Rights Sustainability Imagination
Transformative education is community-centric and
focused on supporting students to enact
social and ecological democracy

23. WHAT IS A
TRANSFORMATIVE EDUCATION?
Transformative education exists at the nexus of:
Human Rights Humans have the right to survive free of oppression
Sustainability Preserving ecology by not depleting resources beyond
what is able to be replenished for future generations
Imagination Use of creativity to explore curiosity and use of
spirit to explore fulfillment
Transformative education is community-centric and
focused on supporting students to enact
social and ecological democracy

24. WHAT IS TRANSFORMATIVE
LEARNING?
Learning is a process
of changing one’s
relationships with
her/his community,
which consist of
interconnections with
nature and society.

25. LINKS
• http://www.ksl.com/index.php?sid=4791823 - Mr. C