The Silent Teacher: The Gift of Body Donation

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Having the real human body in front of us in 3D, seeing how everything in our bodies works together, gives a much more complex view of the human body than a textbook ever could. How to deal with students who say they hate maths or are no good at maths – Julia Smith – audio– video They understand too that this was ‘somebody’. When I heard that they call them (the donated bodies) silent teachers, I went away feeling really happy instead of upset. Silent Teacher is a minimalist game that allows a novice to discover and understand relatively technical concepts in coding and mathematics by themselves, without any explanation being provided. I immediately thought it was a good idea, talked it over with my husband and we both thought it was well worth doing – to contribute to the doctors and surgeons of the future.”

Professor Gordon Findlater, HM Inspector of Anatomy for Scotland, said: “Body donation is a sensitive issue. At an annual memorial service held for the friends and family of those who had left their bodies for medical science, Professor Kenneth Boyd used to quote Winston Churchill by saying, ‘Never have so many owed so much to so few’. Teach in small chunks and fool kids into doing lots of work initially – Femi Adeniran – audio– video Tip four hole this is a biggie Allah Our adequate thinking time, there’s a real danger that we do this all the time, when we’re doing our modelling, we go too fast because of curse of knowledge, we understand this. So we don’t appreciate just how difficult something might be for students. But particularly when you’re kind of doing things in silence, the silence can feel like it’s lasting forever, when actually, it’s only taken a few seconds. So if you want your students to go through that process, we just talked about what’s he just done? What’s he going to do next, they’re going to need time to do that. And it may only be a few seconds, but every time we write a line, a key line, it’s important that we step away from the board, and give students that time to process what’s he just done? What’s he going to do next, then we return and write the next line and pause again. So they have an opportunity to take that in was what happened, what they expected to happen. And as I say, this only needs to be a few seconds each time. But it’s important, we get into that habit that we don’t just race through line after line with no opportunity for students to reflect. And as I say, that’s why I find stepping away from the board can slow me down and also provide that prompt that it’s time for students to self explain.You communicate by drawing or showing in silence and children watch in silence too. At the end of the demonstration, children are invited to ask questions such as, “Why did you draw an arrow through the numbers?”, “Why did you divide the boxes in half?” etc. So there are five tips to help you improve silent teacher, we just go over those tip number one, tell your students what you’re doing and why. Tip two, make full use of gestures. Tip three prompt self explanation. Tip Four, allow adequate thinking time. And Tip Five, ask students to write questions after silent teacher. If you’ve tried silent teacher already, which of those do you already do. And if you have tried silent teacher are there any of those that you don’t do that you feel are important that you can build into your practice. Since there are essentially two timelines going on with the family and the medical school — which only converge every now and then — it makes for some interesting juxtaposition scenes that the director fully makes use of. And while the cadaver is frequently shown in the film, it is treated delicately but not too conservatively. We see just enough to realize that this is without a doubt reality, but not too much that we would feel uncomfortable. So tip number one is to tell your students what you’re doing and why this is really important with with anything really any new idea, it’s important to get the students on board and to justify why you’re doing it’s a good way to do that. But particularly silent teacher, because sound teachers are really weird thing to do. If you all of a sudden you stop talking while you’re doing your modelling, your kids are thinking you’ve lost your mind. Remember, I had a girl in my class called Rachel in my year eight class lovely girl did silent teacher didn’t tell the kids what I was doing and why Rachel’s mum phoned in, say Rachel’s como she’s saying you’re not talking to them anymore. So you can see it’s important to get the kids on board. One way I found is to say to students, look, I’m not going to talk while I’m doing this, this modelling this time. And that’s to reduce all kinds of distractions. So you can focus all your attention on simply watching what I’m doing, and try and understand that. So whatever it takes to kind of get your students on board by offering some kind of justification for this weird thing you’re going to be doing feels important.

Without any teacher explanation or narrative, children piece together what is happening and create meaning for themselves. Practice, practice, practice…not until you can get it right but until you cannot get it wrong – Julia Smith – audio– video Develop competing hypotheses when observing teaching and learning – Ollie Lovell and Craig Barton – video Think creatively when attempting to improve engagement/performance of boys – Jon Mumford – audio– video The power it has on novice learners gaining “domain-specific knowledge” (Craig’s terminology) and working towards mastery is amazing.Because students expect you to be talking, the first time you teach without words may require a special move so that students realize that you are already doing something with them, not just preparing something that you will then talk about. For beginners who have never coded - those who always wanted to give it a try but were never brave enough to start, or else people who, out of curiosity, want to know a bit more about it (for example, to better understand the job of their partner, friend or work colleague). Warning: a minimum ability to do arithmetics is necessary, not adapted to very young children. Specificities As teachers we have to be creative, use props and models, set the mood and engage. It’s actually a very enjoyable and interactive way to teach that we can mix in with ‘normal’ teaching. Performance teaching perhaps but powerful teaching nevertheless.

And when she officially passed her late husband’s body to the anatomy department at Edinburgh University, she was deeply impressed that he was being treated as “somebody” and not just “a body.” Doing rather than telling is actually a powerful way for children to learn as they have to focus more and it reduces their cognitive load. Why teach the silent way?

The first time you teach without talking

They are guided by a series of questions that start off simple and become increasingly difficult, so that they can use trial and error to work out the rules and logic that lie behind these puzzles. Joyce, 67, said: “She was interested in Jim as a person. He wasn’t just ‘some body’. He was ‘somebody’ – that helped me a lot. Due to the traditional belief in keeping one’s corpse whole, medical schools in Taiwan often have difficulty finding cadavers for their students to dissect in anatomy classes. As a result, the cadaver-to-medical student ratio in Taiwan is five times lower than that of Western countries. Here, these bodies are literally treated as “teachers,” with the students bowing and thanking them after each session.