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Trying to teach my past self how to teach… or something like that.
Pants are optional.
Script. Kind of…
NEW DAVE
Hello Old Dave
OLD DAVE
Whoa! You’re me!
NEW DAVE
That’s right. I’m New Dave, from your future, here to tell you about the future of teaching.
OLD DAVE
You came from the future to teach me about teaching?
NEW DAVE
That’s right. Things are going to change real fast for teachers, so we figured out a way to time travel and warn you.
OLD DAVE
Warn me about what?
NEW DAVE
Well Old Dave, I’ve been told to not share too much because I could blow up the world since I’m from the future and all, but I can tell you start learning about a few new things.
OLD DAVE
Blow stuff up? I’m confused. Also, stop calling me Old Dave, if you’re from the future, you’re older than me.
NEW DAVE
You’re already messing things up! Can you just listen? I don’t know how much time I have.
OLD DAVE
How far into the future?
NEW DAVE
Just past this Easter.
OLD DAVE
Oh, okay. How was Mom’s Easter Egg Hunt? That’s always fun for the kids.
NEW DAVE
I don’t want to talk about it. Now, can we focus up for a minute? I’ve got to tell you about teaching. Then I have to go back and teach our kids.
OLD DAVE
Fine, fine “New Dave.”. You’re awful grumpy. So what’s new?
NEW DAVE
Umm. Remember reading about “flipped classrooms”
OLD DAVE
Yeah, where you record the lesson first and then share it with students.
NEW DAVE
Exactly. You should start working on that.
OLD DAVE
Okay? How exactly should I start?
NEW DAVE
I’d start with getting familiar with Loom, Zoom, Google Hangouts, Google Meets, Screencastify, Canvas…
OLD DAVE
Whoa! Can I pick just one?
NEW DAVE.
NO. NO. THAT IS NOT ALLOWED.
OLD DAVE
Okay, I guess.
NEW DAVE
Oh, and you know how you use Google Classrooms.
OLD DAVE
Yeah?
NEW DAVE
Keep doing that. Maybe try just posting a few lessons on there and have your students just read your directions and see how well they do.
OLD DAVE
So post a video, and the lesson on there, and then I should circulate and help them individually?
NEW DAVE
Yes to every part, except the last part.
OLD DAVE
So, don’t help individually? Oh, I know, pull small groups.
NEW DAVE
No.
OLD DAVE
Differentiate?
NEW DAVE
Another thing, I think you should probably look at increasing the speed of your home Internet, and make your WiFi signal super strong.
OLD DAVE
I don’t know how to do that? Do you?
NEW DAVE
Remember how you were at Costco one day, and they had standing desks?
OLD DAVE
Yeah.
NEW DAVE
That’d be a good purchase.
OLD DAVE
I don’t know if our wife is going to like that. It was kind of expensive.
NEW DAVE
And, while you’re there, maybe buy a bag of rice, some beans, you know, lots of frozen and canned goods. Definitely toilet paper.
OLD DAVE
New old Dave, you sound like a doomsday prepper.
NEW DAVE
Pick up a few collared shirts. Don’t worry about pants.
OLD DAVE
What exactly is going on in the future?
NEW DAVE
Hmm. You know that kid who is always on the wrong website on his laptop, fascinated with looking at maps of China.
OLD DAVE
Yeah that’s –
NEW DAVE
Don’t say names!
OLD DAVE
Okay?
NEW DAVE
Remember the last time you took away his computer. Do you remember what he was looking at?
OLD DAVE
Something about bats.
NEW DAVE
Maybe search up that article again. Oh no. I’ve said too much!