I cannot remember anymore the author who said, study for life and not for grades. Our scholastic years were all focused on grades. You are intelligent if you have high grades, and high grades can be acquired by giving back the contents the teachers would give. Students before were treated as numbers and not as individuals. But today's generation, the children themselves are clamoring for a person oriented system of teaching. They want their names to be called, they want to be given a particular attention, they want to be treated as who they are. The style in teaching that you do is very recommendable when you let them have a peer review because that is how they learn outside the school. When they get a new apparatus, they go right away to their peers and try to manipulate it until they get to know the process of playing the equipment.
I think it's so interesting that we are all in education and studied all these theories of learning styles and different pedagogies when we studied to become educators. But in the end we sort of revert back to teaching how we were taught. We are passionate about education because it ended up working for us. Not many people who struggle throughout their school career say they want to grow up and be a teacher. So we are sort of in constant paradox as Parker Palmer describes between the Industrial Age and the New Science Thinking way of teaching. I like how you mentioned how you use the Industrial methods in a New Science thinking way. In my initial response to this question I wrote that it was more of an either or thing but I like how you described using them harmoniously together.
Finally, your idea of office hours and tutoring speaks to the importance of building relationship with our students which I feel is really at the core of teaching.
I cannot remember anymore the author who said, study for life and not for grades. Our scholastic years were all focused on grades. You are intelligent if you have high grades, and high grades can be acquired by giving back the contents the teachers would give. Students before were treated as numbers and not as individuals. But today's generation, the children themselves are clamoring for a person oriented system of teaching. They want their names to be called, they want to be given a particular attention, they want to be treated as who they are. The style in teaching that you do is very recommendable when you let them have a peer review because that is how they learn outside the school. When they get a new apparatus, they go right away to their peers and try to manipulate it until they get to know the process of playing the equipment.
ReplyDeleteI think it's so interesting that we are all in education and studied all these theories of learning styles and different pedagogies when we studied to become educators. But in the end we sort of revert back to teaching how we were taught. We are passionate about education because it ended up working for us. Not many people who struggle throughout their school career say they want to grow up and be a teacher. So we are sort of in constant paradox as Parker Palmer describes between the Industrial Age and the New Science Thinking way of teaching. I like how you mentioned how you use the Industrial methods in a New Science thinking way. In my initial response to this question I wrote that it was more of an either or thing but I like how you described using them harmoniously together.
ReplyDeleteFinally, your idea of office hours and tutoring speaks to the importance of building relationship with our students which I feel is really at the core of teaching.