When children start to understand what you are doing, they feel empowered because the discovery is all theirs and they own the learning. Laura gave me a tour of the anatomy department. I saw where the students learn and I understood that the students are very respectful. They dress in white coats, switch off their phones and don’t wear jeans. The power it has on novice learners gaining “domain-specific knowledge” (Craig’s terminology) and working towards mastery is amazing. Jim McIntosh made the decision to donate his body to medical science so surgeons and could continue to learn. He and 216 people in Scotland last year are known as “silent teachers” – extraordinary people who want their bodies to be used to help doctors and medics.

Children expect us to talk and explain but in a silent movie they have to make sense of what is going on and that requires more of them as learners.Partner A narrated to partner B, telling them exactly what to write to complete the calculation (partner B could only write, interjecting only if they thought a mistake had been made). The roles were then reversed. Not only does it tie in with theories on working memory, but it also involves self-explanation, which in itself is a knowledge-building process. 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.

A minimalist game where beginners can discover what coding is all about and the key concepts behind code, with no explanations given. Through several series of questions, the player is led to guess the rules of this language and learn from his own mistakes. Objective Encourage students to say “stop!” if they are confused during an explanation – Emma Turner – audio– video The Silent Way is the name of a method of language teaching devised by Caleb Gattegno and is centred on learning through awareness and movements.It ain’t what you do, it’s the way that you do it…and that’s what gets results – Julia Smith – audio– video Without any teacher explanation or narrative, children piece together what is happening and create meaning for themselves. The surgeon wanted to see if it would be possible to remove the tumour and asked if he could access a cadaver to see what exactly would be involved in the surgery. The whole operating team came to see how they might remove this tumour and what complications they might face. The room is silent. I slowly draw up the equations on the board. I utter not a word while doing so. And then I turn to my class, still not talking, and I wait for them to tell me what I just did. 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.

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 Review every lesson plan in terms of what the student is thinking about – Daisy Christodoulou – audio – video 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. The teacher’s silence demands visual attention from the children and puts a spotlight on the demonstration.

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. 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? Use partner work as a chance to recruit quiet kids to share their thinking – Michael Pershan – audio– video This is the simplest of our courses. It focuses on calculating proportions and cross multiplying, concepts that many adults don't master.

For example, you might be teaching maths and showing children how to do the Gelosia multiplication method. You do this showing all the steps involved without saying a word.

Fifth-year medical student Beth Fitt, who also has a degree in anatomy, said: “The difference between learning from a textbook and learning from a human body is that ultimately medicine is a practical profession. For us to be able to learn practically is key. 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. Pythagoras’ theorem (without any demonstration) and its application in a specific case (distance between two points in 2D space) I recall one surgeon who had a patient, a young man, who was dying as a result of an invasive tumour. In the absence of teacher explanation or narration of events, students must piece together the pattern or meaning themselves, developing focus, attention, and problem solving skills.