The traditional style of teaching (and the easiest for the one teaching) is to present the material to the student in a very linear way. Here is the information I think you should know. Now it is your responsibility to meet me halfway and try to make sense of the information I have delivered. In this method the responsibility of the teacher is simply to make the information known. There is no accountability as to whether or not the student has actually learned the information. Tests in this sense give no feedback except for how short of perfection they fell (past-tense). This leaves the student hanging and if the student actually did learn something it was a miracle.
One of the definitions of being a teacher is one who causes to learn. How can a teacher truly be teaching if his student hasn't learned what the teacher was hoping he would learn. In order to cause learning the information to be presented has to be presented in a way in which the student will absorb it. This is different for different classes, different people, and different subjects. No cookie-cutter model for teaching will work. The ideas we hope to give to our children must be contextualized in a way that involves them.
My heart is that every student I will ever interact with will know that I care about who they are more than what they learn. Of course it is also my hope they the things they learn will be remembered and recalled successfully as it applies to their lives. So, this being my first post for this blog, that is what the title of this blog means. I hope to cause students to learn. I want them to want to learn.
One of the definitions of being a teacher is one who causes to learn. How can a teacher truly be teaching if his student hasn't learned what the teacher was hoping he would learn. In order to cause learning the information to be presented has to be presented in a way in which the student will absorb it. This is different for different classes, different people, and different subjects. No cookie-cutter model for teaching will work. The ideas we hope to give to our children must be contextualized in a way that involves them.
My heart is that every student I will ever interact with will know that I care about who they are more than what they learn. Of course it is also my hope they the things they learn will be remembered and recalled successfully as it applies to their lives. So, this being my first post for this blog, that is what the title of this blog means. I hope to cause students to learn. I want them to want to learn.
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