The sad state of affairs is that many who interact with primary and secondary school educators, from textbook publishers with their “bibles” to school administrators whose obsession with national exams seriously believe in the “common orthodox method” is the only way to go. If this path of least resistance adopted by many primary and secondary school educators can be broken, “creative, novel and experimental” approaches can become a reality.
Primary and secondary school educators in their undergraduate education course(s) need to develop confidence in subject matter, and an understanding of primary and secondary school classroom dynamics. What better time for future educators to learn them, then just after being an active part of that environment. Activities like “Determine the content (what is to be learned), especially vocabulary, by participatory methods. The source of what words to put in the list to be learned should come from the trainees.( from your WHY PARTICIPATORY LITERACY? http://www.scn.org/cmp/modules/lit-why.htm )” are very helpful in building confidence. Content in primary and/or secondary school subject materials does not consist of an infinite number of terms. A good grasp of what makes up the present state of mathematics, science, language arts or any subject areas on the primary and/or secondary school level is a vocabulary of at most 1,000 terms each. Exploring one of the subject areas in this way builds understanding. Group dynamics needs to be addressed especially with the high mobility of the world's populations. The linguistic, economic and social environmental backgrounds of any group or community of learners needs to be take into consideration before any new “creative, novel and experimental” approaches can be used. Having worked in both educational and non-educational fields, I have noticed that the most successful people are those with information and an understanding of how groups they work with will receive it. Jim Kelly http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Jkelly952 On Oct 10, 1:17 am, Phil Bartle <[email protected]> wrote: > Today's rant is about the complementarity between methods of learning > and methods of teaching > > See:http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Philbartle#Phil.27s_Rants > > If the coach does the pushups, > The athlete will not get stronger > Community Empowerment:www.scn.org/cmp/ > WikiEducatorhttp://www.wikieducator.org/User:Philbartle > Join our discusssion > forumhttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/Community_Strengthening --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
