1. Dr Dennis Francis Commonwealth Education Trust
Being a Teacher
Dr Dennis Francis Commonwealth Education Trust

2. Foundations of Teaching for Learning
Course 2: Being a Teacher
Week 2: Myself and my learning
Lecture 2.3 Understanding my classroom ‘selves’

3. Understanding my transactions
If we stand outside ourselves we could watch the transactions that take place in our classrooms, the role, or person we become – the ‘parent’ (directing, admonishing) the ‘child’ (egocentric, complaining, feeling ‘done to’), the adult (mature, grown up, treating others with respect).

4. What does it mean to behave like a parent?
What does it mean to behave like an adult?
Adult
What does it mean to behave like a child?
Child

5. In my actions and transactions with another person…
What does it mean to behave like a parent?
Parent
What does it mean to behave like an adult?
Adult
What does it mean to behave like a child?
Child

6. The child’s 3 personas The adult’s 3 personas The parent’s 3 personas

7. How do we transact with the three ‘selfs’ of another person?
Parent
Parent
How do we transact with the three ‘selfs’ of another person?
Adult
Adult
Child
Child

8. Parent
Parent
What would an adult to adult transaction be like?
Adult
Adult
Child
Child

9. Parent
Parent
Adult
Adult
What would child to child transaction be like?
Child
Child

10. What would a parent to child transaction be like?
Adult
Adult
How would you expect the ‘child’ to respond?
Child
Child

11. What would a child to parent transaction be like?
Adult
Adult
How would you expect the ‘parent’ to respond?
Child
Child

12. A crossed transaction
Parent
Parent
Adult
Adult
The ‘parent’ responds to the ‘adult’ in the child
Child
Child

13. The teacher in her ‘parent’’
How many times have I told you not to do that in this class?
The teacher in her ‘parent’’
The child in her ‘adult’
I did it by mistake. I apologise. It won’t happen again

14. Transactions in my classroom
How would you describe the nature of transactions in your classroom?
Do these change depending on the subject? The task? The time of day or week? What has gone before?
Are there established patterns which are hard to break?

15. Why not try… Monitoring your own transactions
At different times in your teaching
In relationships with children out of school hours
With other adults (in school)
With other adults at home or in the community

16. Foundations of Teaching for Learning
Course 2: Being a Teacher
Week 2: Myself and my learning
Lecture 2.3 Understanding my classroom ‘selves’

17. Dr Dennis Francis Commonwealth Education Trust
Being a Teacher
Dr Dennis Francis Commonwealth Education Trust