Monday, December 13, 2010
Wk 4-Reading CH. 10-12
I love how the author took the blame for the mistake during a performance. I had a professor in college who when the class did poorly on a test tell us, "I am sorry. I must not have taught this particular curriculum well. I will reteach it and again, my apologies." That has stuck with me through the years and I have had to say that to my students. It is important to not place blame on everyone else but to accept some of it as your own. It is not us (teachers) vs them (students), it is we as a class and we as a school. So I will try to be the whole board, not just a game piece.
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great example. that's one professor who understands that education is not about depositing data in the head of students but about the give-and-take that it takes for humans to learn. It does require students be open to learning, but the openness is dependent on the educator drawing the student into the experience of learning. Too often students turn off because they've learned that they don't count the teacher cares more about a subject than about them. So, why bother.
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ReplyDeleteWhat a great example your teacher set when claiming his failure rather than blaming it on the class. As an instructional designer, I take every comment that a student leaves to heart. If they are frustrated with the training that I created or don't do well during the question session it may be because I didn't explain things well enough or give enough examples. Yes, the blame game is not a fun game. Thanks for sharing your story.
Cherie,
ReplyDeleteI think the simple fear that spawns from blame or assigning fault is one of the reasons that teachers hesitate to implementing technology. Some are afraid to make mistakes or lose a little bit of authority by simply asking someone in particular a student for help. I think in many cases we should simply admit that we don’t have all the answers and that we are learning as well.
It is really amazing when you have to say to yourself that I am to blame for the situation that we are in. This is a reflection that I at times make of myself and the current intensity of my students. What is it that motivates my class to achieve more that what is expected. As we returned from the Thanksgiving break I reflected upon what I needed to do to make my students more interested in the skills that we were attempting to develop. The answer that I came up with was the fact that I needed to have more in depth lessons with regards to actual drawing. My students are just learning how to create and sketch. Finding faults in my attempts to teach have done wonders for my adaptation and correction.
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