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Austin Hatch on Adler's Modes of Teaching
A great learning experience comes at the material using different practices—listening, reading, memorizing, interrogating, doing, speaking, and/or writing about the idea until it crystallizes in the student's mind. And a great teacher facilitates those practices in his class plan.
For his talk at the 2024 Forum Teaching Conference, upper school teacher Austin Hatch borrowed the "three modes of teaching" proposed by author and educator Mortimer Adler. These are: didactic instruction, supervised practice, and active participation. Mr. Hatch explains why they are each needed in good proportion…
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