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Post by krsnaraja on May 3, 2016 8:03:02 GMT
Changing the way we teach should be focused first in developing strategies of how we could get the students their attention on the subject they want to study and learn. Even if the students are interested to know what the subject is all about but if the teacher lacks the expertise & skill in getting it across the firing line, it will be just a waste of time trying to inculcate in their minds what is in the subject the students need to learn. Although test questions are important parameters for the teacher to know if they learned something from what was being taught, it is not a guarantee the students will succeed in making it work once they apply this learning experience in the real world. We only pass this road once so the teacher should as if there is no tomorrow teach the students a thing or two they will never forget. There wont be any words to express the joy it brings when student become teachers themselves.
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Post by krsnaraja on May 3, 2016 23:38:12 GMT
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Post by gruntal on May 3, 2016 23:46:12 GMT
Actually you pass over the road a great many times. Even the teacher is supposed to be conversant with the latest fact and theories. "Going back to school" implies there is in effect new knowledge or skills - not because you forgot the old ones. So at best it is just an introduction to something the students and teacher will continue to pick up and pursue.
It also never ceases to amaze me how what is deemed important can change so much over the years. And how at one instance a curriculum can be just a drudge or barrier and then become nothing short of a desperate plea when the student truly needs what is being taught. In the late 1960's when I was going to college there was a shout for "relevance" . Alas not a few did not even know how to "get a life". Or what they would do if they had one.
By far the most perennial lament of teachers is that they need to instill a certain mind set in the initiate from the very beginning. That is what the old apprenticeships did. If not it won't get any better as the student progresses. What you learned was only going to be perverted unless the student could made to think and appreciate in a certain way. That is not brain washing or control. It is an effort to get the student to appreciate what he or she is being taught and for what reason.
Some of my best teachers might have came off as army drill instructors. But that was only because the effort was indeed important and not to be trivialized. It MEANT something.
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