think of yourself as a coach?
Idea #18 from the mini handbook How to Improve Student Learning* tells me I need to do this. It also tells me to be sure the students are performing for me and not the other way around. How many times have I felt like I was performing? I remember my first try at teaching adults. I was asked to present on using the internet to disseminate research information for a forestry grad class at UNBC. The students sat there looking at me with sleepy eyes. No matter what I said or did up front, I failed to impress them. Several of them began a 'wave' of yawning that knew no end. A couple of people folded up their books and replaced them in their backpacks. As Idea #18 says, I should have 'blown the whistle', I needed to 'coach', rather than to 'impart imformation'. I have since applied this to my teaching. Now, if only I could apply it to my parenting.
*How to Improve Student Learning, Dr. Richard Paul, and Dr. Linda Elder, published by The Foundation for Critical Thinking
*How to Improve Student Learning, Dr. Richard Paul, and Dr. Linda Elder, published by The Foundation for Critical Thinking
Labels: creative motivation, teaching
posted by Kim at 9:39 AM
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Parenting is harder that teaching others. In parenting there are emotional bonds. In teaching there are students and no real bond. But you did do one thing right for sure. You learned through you experience how to teach. Failing at something is considered experience. Learning from your failures is what is remembered and used later. So you never really failed your first time...you only gained experience of what not to do. Parenting is the same.
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