Week 13 Article

OLDaily Stephen’s Web
Pattern Seeking Instead of Content Delivery
http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?post=50947
Angela Maiers, Weblog

Angela Maiers presents how we fail to deliver lessons, because we are planning as teachers, instead of readers. I agree that most of the time, I do not put myself in the shoes of the students and how the content is being recieved. Most of the time my focus is on how to teach the lesson, and not how to learn/grow from the lesson. Maiers makes some valuable points on how to change the patterning of teaching. Looking at lessons through the eyes of the students and how successfully they are learning from the lessons, will have more of an impact then focusing solely on how to teach the lessons. I too, believe that teaching is a lifelong journey. If we do not examine and analyze the way we deliver lessons then we will lose our impact on students and there will be little comprehension of information. The important things to improve upon as educators are thinking, reading, and communication. Without thinking about and reading about what you are planning to teach, the delivery of the lesson will lose it’s pizzazz. Also, without communication you are already at a loss with winning students over. Students must have respect and the willingness to please you, or they will not strive to do their best in lessons.