Beliefs about how people learn:
Use students to teach the class, individual exploration of topic, “fishing”. Guides the conversation, but allows the students to discover the answers. Structures class to allow for controlled conversation, with freedom for students to develop ideas on their own.
Develop Competency:
Students should have an understanding of the content area in large terms, and be able to explain the major issues at the heart of the subject. Dialog and reflection are also important in developing competency. By having the students understand the basic ideas of the content area, they will have a deeper understanding of further study, and how the issue that science is messy and subjective will effect further lessons.
If students have mutual trust and respect with the teacher and structure in the classroom then they will be able to develop competency in the subject area because they will individually explore the content and have a passion and desire to learn more about the subject.
JP,
ReplyDeleteYour T2P suggests you believe mutual trust and respect leads to competency. Can you think of a case when this might be incorrect? And, does the mutual trust and respect have to cover 100% of the students 100% of the time for content area competency to develop?
GNA
Well there could always be a case where a student(s) would just not trust the teacher, no matter the effort put into building trust. There will always be outliers, but connecting with almost all the students will suffice to effectively teach them.
ReplyDeleteI would like to think 100% mutual trust and respect 100% of the time would be attainable, but in a case where that doesn't happen, I think working towards that goal as hard as possible would be the next best thing. 100% trust and respect less that 100% of the time is better than less than 100% trust and respect 100% of the time.
Fair enough.
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