Task 2
1. There are no correct or incorrect ways to act, which I find very liberating and motivating. I have stopped thinking about becoming a “better teacher” (Better than who? Better than when? Better for whom? How much better?). I am now starting to focus on “the degree to which what you do is in tune with what you want to do”. When we manage to suspend judgement, we can actually focus on describing what we hear/see instead of wasting our energy on criticizing our every move and agonizing over all the options we should have chosen but didn’t.
2. Transcripts should be very short snippets of the lesson to make sure that they are manageable and that we can look at the same material wearing multiple pairs of glasses. We need to go beyond “initial judgements and one-dimensional interpretations”.
3. Assigning opposite labels to activities and characteristics is a great way to examine and challenge our beliefs.
1. There are no correct or incorrect ways to act, which I find very liberating and motivating. I have stopped thinking about becoming a “better teacher” (Better than who? Better than when? Better for whom? How much better?). I am now starting to focus on “the degree to which what you do is in tune with what you want to do”. When we manage to suspend judgement, we can actually focus on describing what we hear/see instead of wasting our energy on criticizing our every move and agonizing over all the options we should have chosen but didn’t.
2. Transcripts should be very short snippets of the lesson to make sure that they are manageable and that we can look at the same material wearing multiple pairs of glasses. We need to go beyond “initial judgements and one-dimensional interpretations”.
3. Assigning opposite labels to activities and characteristics is a great way to examine and challenge our beliefs.
Hi Liudmyla! I really like your third point. This is a practice I want to do more of.
ReplyDelete1. I WILL stop thinking about becoming a "better teacher"! It is indeed wasting enegry! I love this!
ReplyDeleteDear L, A and R,
ReplyDeleteL, your initial comments which A and R accepted provide support for one of the central themes of my teaching life--teachers sharing learn from each other in more profound ways than teachers sitting in classes with experts and reading articles and writing comments about them which they submit to the professor who comments on them.
Joint exploration, peers learning from each other.
As I say in Video 12 Transcribing after students see that they can listen to the CD and read the passage and write what they hear on their own they do not need me. "Bye, bye John" is what I think I say in the video.
Short snippets--nice word. Opposite labels, yes for sure. And not becoming better--better than who?
See ya all soon.
Thank you for your thoughtful ideas. I've come to realize there is no good/bad dichotomy in teaching. However, I still believe in effective/ineffective 😁
ReplyDeleteThis is why I love this course!!! Sharing and learning!
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