Submitted by Thomas N. Turner (not verified) on December 12, 2007 - 10:22.
I want to echo and expand on the notion of working with a real practitioner. You may have to look a little to find those "real" practitioners. Not every job holding teacher is a real practitioner. But if you can find one, I would suggest that you work with more than one "real" practitioner. There is not one way of making the teaching-learning thing work. How do you know a "real practitioner when you see one? Though there are many definitions, the real ones will always show in some way that they themselves are still on the learn, that they know that teaching at its heart is a relationship between two human beings, that the art of teaching is getting students to want to learn, and, most importantly, that they care.
I want to echo and expand on
Submitted by Thomas N. Turner (not verified) on December 12, 2007 - 10:22.
I want to echo and expand on the notion of working with a real practitioner. You may have to look a little to find those "real" practitioners. Not every job holding teacher is a real practitioner. But if you can find one, I would suggest that you work with more than one "real" practitioner. There is not one way of making the teaching-learning thing work. How do you know a "real practitioner when you see one? Though there are many definitions, the real ones will always show in some way that they themselves are still on the learn, that they know that teaching at its heart is a relationship between two human beings, that the art of teaching is getting students to want to learn, and, most importantly, that they care.