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For three days, we teachers have been required to "sit and git" ALL DAY LONG! My biggest complaint about this is that they are "teaching" us the way they DO NOT WANT US to teach students. Are we really that different from our students? Why do they think we can attend to lectures and PowerPoint presentations being read aloud for 8 hours in a day? Geeez; I am thinking positive thoughts that at least I have some marvelous examples of what NOT to do on Monday when my eager and energetic students enter my classroom!
The answer is not where we think it is. The treasure may not come in the form we desire, but in a hidden way. After reading the chapter on being a contribution, I am sure you learned that every experience is an opportunity. What a great opportunity to experience what the students feel when we are using boring methods to teach! Hopefully, you took notes and came up with different approach on presenting the information in an innovative way. How would you have presented the information if you had been asked to conduct the training? Write down some of the things you could have done differently to improve the strategies used to deliver the information. There you have it! You actually learned something. Once in a while it is good to place ourselves in the students' situation to learn what NOT TO DO. Remember, we learn from good and bad experiences. Everything has a purpose. :0)
ReplyDeleteYes, Brenda, I did take notes and made many mental ones! I do NOT teach with lecture - sit and git - tactics. I believe that is why the students enjoy my class; each and every day they enter, they never know what I am going to come up with the engage them. I love seeing their surprised and relieves faces after they have come from a class that may not be as spontaneous as mine. I did learn from the sit and git that I endured, but then, I already knew mostly that sit and git is not the do-all end-all for learning/teaching. You are so right; everything has a purpose; there is a plan; and I plan to be a great contribution to my students' engagement and learning success!
ReplyDeleteAck, this reminds me of university classes on multiple intelligences that ignore multiple intelligences in their curriculum.
ReplyDeleteSo true!
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