Saturday, February 6, 2010

Thought I Knew It All...Then I Went to Class.



Your teacher asks, "What is learning and what is teaching?" Pretty simple questions, right?

Before class I would have said you learn something when a teacher provides facts, and teaching is when you lecture to students and provide them with resources.

Um...turns out I didn't know the half of it.

There are so many different styles of learning. There's visual, auditory, tactile, and MANY more. Everybody learns in a different way.

Teaching is so much more as well. Teachers are there to arrange the conditions in which students can actively learn. Teaching is not just standing in the front of the room and talking. Teaching(effectively)requires a number of different strategies used within the class in order to reach each and every student.

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