Hi everyone,
Here is a quote for you to consider as you construct your lesson plans. The quote is from the great pianist/jazz musician/recent Grammy award-winner Herbie Hancock:
"A great teacher is one who realizes that he himself is also a student and whose goal is not to dictate the answers, but to stimulate his students creativity enough so that they go out and find the answers themselves."
Herbie Hancock
Looking forward to seeing your lesson plans...
EH
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It's kinda interesting cuz Anna and I observed some choirs at the middle school this week and we both thought that it was great that he didn't just feed the students information, he really had them talk through what was going on in the song and they seemed so knowledgeable about the musical concepts.
longest sentence ever! anyways yeah i thought he was a great teacher and on a completely different note, he taught really effective lessons without "honoring their world" as we've been discussing, which i thought was interesting
herbie must be a type 4
I agree with the quote entirely (and not just because I am a type 4,hehe).
I believe that it is more rewarding when I figure out things on my own what the answers are. I feel like a sccomplished someting and it usually stays in my memory longer than if someone just gives me the answer. May not work for all but it is something worth trying because you never know..you might just learn something in the process;).
I think that as teachers it is absurd to think that we will always have the right answer, or even any answer. I think we should make it clear to our class that we are learning just as they are and that the process is reciprocal. We may know more thoery and concepts than they do at any given point but to actually teach it we must learn from experience. No matter how much we talk about curve ball situations in the classroom, you can't really count on the situation to always work out ok. Circumstances are always different and the way in which we react to them will decide how effective we are as teachers. As for the "we are all learning" thing, it's like the "teach a man to fish" adage. If we provide them with the tools they need to figure stuff out on their own, they will appreciate the outcome more than if we just spoon feed them the answers. They might even be able to shine new light on a subject in a way that the teacher may have never realized. Imagine that... a teacher learning from a student. That can't happen can it? lol
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