Think-about #1

I thought I'd toss out a thought I had about teaching and learning and invite your responses. I'm going to call these thoughts think-abouts. So as we do this, if you have a "think-about" share it with me and perhaps you can be a guest author on the class blog. So here goes my first "think-about".......

Once you enter your classrooms, if you are trying new things, you can expect to have lots of learning experiences.There is much to learn!  You are starting out knowing very little about how each student thinks and learns. The odds are that you won't successfully hit every student's communication and learning strategy the first time so not all your results will be successful. Don't view these experiences as failures. View them as feedback.You can say, "Wow! I sure learned how not to do it that time!" or "Hey, I really didn't do that so well so what can I learn from this experience?" You can re-think the meaning of the word failure, and replace it with the word lesson or gift.

So remember: There are no failures in learning : only outcomes and feedback.
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Feedback is critical to successful teaching.

What are your thoughts?

Comments

[Nancy1]

I believe that there is no such thing as failure. There is a saying "What doesn't kill us makes us stronger', well the same thing goes for teaching. When we find that we didn't do something right, or we messed up when working in the classroom, we just sort of teach ourselves in a way to do better next time. It's important to absorb everything in when you are with children that way you can learn about them and why and how.

[Shaqulia]

I agree with you when you said that every child learning stragety is different. Everytime I go down to the elementary school I have to work with this one student, mainly in math and reading. He is so hard to teach because he can't be still for longer than a minute. His attention spand is not good, and that's why is is very hard to teach. All and all, he is my one of my favorite students.

[Shaqulia]

I agree with you when you said that every child learning stragety is different. Everytime I go down to the elementary school I have to work with this one student, mainly in math and reading. He is so hard to teach because he can't be still for longer than a minute. His attention spand is not good, and that's why is is very hard to teach. All and all, he is my one of my favorite students.

[Tiffany]

I understand that every child learns a different way, my issue is trying to find which way he/she learns, or how to please more than one student at once. I want to be able to teach different ways to all the kids so they can each be interested but, that's not possible. I believe if you can get a kid interested then they will improve because they like what is being taught. Since every student is different, and what one student likes another dislikes it's hard to please all so then what do you do? I think you just experiment and do trial and error.