tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3258082.post964685712758420666..comments2024-01-12T08:44:54.145+00:00Comments on While looking for something else...: On the importance of contextUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3258082.post-49295191033938208452010-11-18T18:26:10.361+00:002010-11-18T18:26:10.361+00:00I've run to earth Gibbs' source; it's ...I've run to earth Gibbs' source; it's a free download from the HEA, at http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/assets/York/documents/ourwork/evidence_informed_practice/Dimensions_of_Quality.pdf<br /><br />I'll comment on the blog laterJames Ahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12253521286404575829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3258082.post-59402947814899651402010-10-28T17:49:28.557+01:002010-10-28T17:49:28.557+01:00We have a meeting in a couple days in my academy w...We have a meeting in a couple days in my academy where the owner wants to nail down the exact process of how we teach every student at every development stage.<br /><br />I'm just not sure how to articulate my opinion, which is teachers walking into a classroom to give a lesson have two objectives: help the students make progress, and satisfy the organizational entity that employs them that they are, in fact, doing their jobs to a competent level.<br /><br />Teachers or professors who move away from rigorously-structured paradigms either don't know any better, or have come to the point where they realize those paradigms often aren't necessary for accomplishing what should be the goal of teaching, or they realize that doing what they know is correct will likely get them fired.<br /><br />There may very well be a precise science to teaching, but for me it's also a form of art. Yeah, you need structure, planning and control, but you also need responsiveness and flow.<br /><br />-Another MattMattnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3258082.post-14484526958143609202010-10-24T07:20:37.870+01:002010-10-24T07:20:37.870+01:00I think you are absolutely correct in your observa...I think you are absolutely correct in your observations. The more you give specific guidelines, the more you simply provide the information needed by students to do exert the minimum effort to simply pass the course.<br /><br />With some obvious exceptions, we're not really teaching information so much as skills that will need to be applied.<br /><br />I'm fifteen years out of university. I constantly make use of techniques I learned in my sections, classes and lectures, but I very rarely need to reference the actual content I was exposed to.<br /><br />-MattMattnoreply@blogger.com