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Uncommon Sense Teaching: Part 2, Building Community and Habits of Learning
4.9134 ratings at CourseraOverview
In Part 2 of Uncommon Sense Teaching: Building Community and Habits of Learning, you will explore the following areas more deeply—helping you to connect with the latest insights into research and have fun while you are doing it!
• The hidden strengths of neurodiversity: Dyslexia, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, autism, and
other syndromes that relate to learning
• The value of forgetting
• How to use habits formed by the procedural system to help you with classroom management
• Judicious use of rewards to motivate students (too many rewards can de-motivate)
• How to avoid educational fads
• The power of lesson plans
This is like no other course on teaching—it weaves late-breaking insights from neuroscience with personal insights from the classroom to provide unexpected, yet practical, new approaches. You’ll discover how to bring out the best from all your students in today’s diverse teaching environment, where students often have a wide range of abilities.
Uncommon Sense Teaching will take your teaching to a higher level for whatever subjects you teach, whether math, physics, literature, dance, art, or anything else; and whether you are teaching K-12, university, business, vocational, or at home.
Join us today to move into the new era of education!
Syllabus 4
- Week 1: Motivation, Stress, and Character Change 3.5 hours
This week’s materials cover motivation, stress, and character change—vitally important topics for us as teachers. We’ll learn about the importance of surprise in learning—part of what can make good teaching both surprising and rewarding! We’ll also discover why we like to say that “Curiosity is Que…
- Week 2: How to Reach and Teach Both Procedural and Declarative Pathways 3 hours
This week, we’ll learn how the brain decides whether to make some mental or physical task conscious or nonconscious—it all depends on how often we do it! We’ll also be sneaking in through both the front and back doors of the brain’s different learning systems. Of course, both declarative and proced…
- Week 3: Intellectual Humility, Critical Thinking, and Bias 2.5 hours
This week is full of surprises as we dig deeper into the advantages and disadvantages of faster and slower types of learning. Who knew that those who struggle with their learning—our hikers—can actually be more accurate with what they learn? For them, it can be easier to flexibly accept and change…
- Week 4: Neurodiversity, Student Groups, and Charting Your Course to the Finish Line! 4.5 hours
Syndromes such as dyslexia or attention deficit disorder can sometimes exert subtle effects that can make learning more difficult even though no diagnosis has been made. Other times, as with famed director Steven Spielberg and his dyslexia, a student's learning challenges can simply escape detectio…
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Advantages and disadvantages
Advantages
- Structured courses with graded quizzes, assignments and deadlines you can reset.
- A shareable certificate from the university or company when you pay.
- Financial aid is often approved for students in India (apply 15 days before you need it).
- Covers niche tools that universities don't teach.
- Rated 4.9 out of 5 by 134 learners.
- Self-paced: start any time.
- A clear syllabus (4 parts) you can see before you start.
Disadvantages
- Paid after a 7-day free trial (Coursera Plus or per course).
- Some courses can be audited for free, but graded work and certificates need payment.
- Many courses are produced quickly from slides and screen recordings; read the reviews first.
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- Financial aid: If you cannot afford the fee for a certificate, you can apply for financial aid through the link on the course home page by filling out an application about your background and goals.
Taught by
- Dr. Barbara OakleyProfessor of Engineering, Industrial & Systems Engineering, Oakland University
- Beth RogowskyAssociate Professor of Education , Department of Teaching and Learning at Bloomsburg University of PA
- Dr. Terrence SejnowskiFrancis Crick Professor at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, Computational Neurobiology Laboratory
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