The Silent Teacher: The Gift of Body Donation

Product Information

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. We have detailed statistics allowing us to know how many players get which answer wrong, how many attempts they need before they answer correctly and the average response time. This allows us to adjust the time if some questions seem too difficult to answer.

Silence is golden. It is also a highly engaging and effective way to teach and has a dramatic impact on classroom management. 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. This is the simplest of our courses. It focuses on calculating proportions and cross multiplying, concepts that many adults don't master. Annoying muiltiplication came up several times (specifically 7 * 9 and 8 * 6). Since the content was meant to be about learning Elm and not about practicing multiplication, I found that distracting. 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.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? 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.

Show your students that being familiar with something is not the same as knowing it – Craig Barton – video At the very end of the game, the number of mistakes is displayed: at that point, it’s fine since the player has finished the game and is no longer going to be put off or feel insecure. This functionality targets more competitive players who complained about not seeing their score. If felt a bit too long for the amount of topics it covered. I felt like reducing the repetition by about 20% might feel better. Alternatively, I think interleaving some of the topics, or having more variations of problems within each topic, or occasional problems that combine multiple previous skills would help improve that too. 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.The teacher’s silence demands visual attention from the students, and leads them to listen to each other. 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.