The Transformational Teacher--- What if a person was having trouble doing a pull up for exercise? Instead of giving them some other exercise, I could help them by doing the pull up for that person. Right? No, that wouldn’t actually be useful. However, if I push on the persons feet a little bit, they can still struggle and still exercise. Warning: allowing productive struggle to occur will consume more class time. However, when the learning process is frictionless, retention is less likely. Struggle actually saves re-teaching time in the long run and is the best way for new dendrites to grow. Allowing productive struggle to occur, using artistic and scientific instruction, modeling symphonic thinking, and encouraging students to lean into constructivist problem solving can lead to the holy grail of transformational teaching: epiphany. ~~~Edutopia MY NOTE: All learn through struggling both independently and as part of a team. Formula: Learning + Imagination + Application = Success and Retention
Posted on: Sun, 03 Aug 2014 18:28:35 +0000
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