Great Teaching: Four EssentialsAll of us are in the process of learning how to be better teachers; some of the oldest of us are humbled when we learn new ideas and techniques from inexperienced teachers. We learn from our students, too, often on a daily basis. The following ideas are based on the assumption of constant learning while we teach.
In English 1A, we ask students to use Aristotle's ideas of ethos, pathos, and logos in order to be persuasive, to move others to action. These concepts provide a great basis for organizing our thoughts about how to move our students, to persuade them, to become better thinkers, better readers, and better writers. Aristotle only needed one more idea: involving the whole student, with all of her senses and her body, in the learning process.
Here are explanations, with examples, of ethos, pathos, and logos as fundamentals of good teaching, plus teaching the whole student. Please send additions to Marilyn (mdpatton@aol.com) for more ideas and examples and criticisms.
Ethos
Pathos
Logos
The Whole Student
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