Thursday, June 30, 2011

Thinking about teachers and learners....

1. Remember a teacher who made a difference in your education / life.
2. Consider what it was about that teacher that made the difference for you.
3. Now consider what it was about yourself that made it possible for this teacher to make a difference.

I liked the idea that defining what made the teachers able to make a difference to us was in fact something held within us, the learner, not external to us, as in within the teacher!

So by rewarding teachers externally (with more pay- if you are a good one) it is really only rewarding a person for something that they are only partially involved in creating - the learner is really responsible for creating the 'space' inside themselves to learn ....

 - as they say in facebook;     Like.

1 comment:

  1. LOL - yes, agree, "Like!"

    I was just looking for a way to contact you - hope you see this - in case you're keen my advanced blogging course is set to run August 20 but we need two more people to make it happen! Full info is at - would love to catch up again.
    cheers, Amanda