Hi guys!
Last Thursday, we had
a very interesting class with Gavin about Student Center Learning. We dream to
create a class here our students are the center, but it is not easy for us
teacher to leave the comfortable zone of control.
I really enjoyed the
text that we read before discussing about some activities that we normally do
that sometimes we call “student-centered” but are really not, because the
burden is not in “all” students most of the time and that’s the hardest thing
to achieve. I can highlight two sentences, first “I spend so much time studying
that I don’t have a chance to learn anything”. Who never felt like that at school? I did many
times, and my goal as a teacher is not to repeat this cycle, it is not easy,
but we need to do our part.
Second “The job of
teaching is not to stuff them (students) and then seal them up, but to help
them open and reveal the riches within. There are pearls in each of us, if only
we knew how to cultivate them with ardor and persistence”.
Only with reflection
and lots of effort, we can achieve this goal of being really just a facilitator
in the classroom.
The analogy is a powerful one. I love the picture to enhance what you read and discussed. It is so true- how can we open them up and reveal the riches within them with each and every opportunity?
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