Should teachers be 'partners' or 'leaders' in learning

[thought]

I actually think that teachers should be facilitators in education. and there roll should be to support, provide information and direction to the individual child / person to meet there own aims, objectives and interests in education...

But then .... That would enable us to have a range of inspired people actually enjoying school!!

 

[TylerD]

They should be facilitator nodes who will engage semantic synergies to deliver cross-platform learning in an end-to-end educational framework.

 

[Skimix]

It wasn't until I started mathematical finance (after doing an MSc) that I realised the importance of learning by wrote (sp?)...and I wish I'd realised that earlier...languages etc would have been so much easier...I always thought I could figure it out but you can't, some stuff you either know it or you don't (e.g. a level maths - either you know the differential of 1/log or you dont!)

 

[8ball]

It wasn't until I started mathematical finance (after doing an MSc) that I realised the importance of learning by wrote (sp?)...and I wish I'd realised that earlier...languages etc would have been so much easier...I always thought I could figure it out but you can't, some stuff you either know it or you don't (e.g. a level maths - either you know the differential of 1/log or you dont!)

I think a lot of people don't realise that learning by rote is something that comes before intuitive and creative modes of understanding, rather than instead of.

At least with me - all the connections between things don't become apparent and the subject doesn't quite become fully alive until after I've hammered the fundamentals into my thick skull.

I think some ideas about education also don't recognise the value of working patiently through a little frustration.

I honestly have no idea how they teach nowadays btw, I'm talking about some trendy 70s ideas that seemed to hang over into the 80s and really messed with my sister's education (she later worked really hard and more than caught up and is a special needs teacher ).

 

[Red Cat]

I think some ideas about education also don't recognise the value of working patiently through a little frustration.

What ideas are these?

 

[8ball]

What ideas are these?

One example being the "look-say" method of teaching reading - so much easier than having to learn how words are constructed from letters (and a lot easier than teaching it). Unfortunately generates a lot of illiterate kids (but fortunately now abandoned afaik).

 

[thought]

We use a lot of school resources, at home, with our daughter (we home school) she decides the topic. Were currently looking at animal homes, and different homes through the ages. To make this cover the ks1 aims and objectives, (we dont have to follow a curriculum, however i like a point of reference for where her education is at) in maths and english.. I then look through, MOUNTAINS of educational books and online, and find resources which can be used, to encourage the maths and english side of it.

Because its a topic she is interested in, and because its engaging for her, I never have to ask her to do her work. Its done before i am up in the morning! I kid you not!

Today she has then spent much of the day, discovering via books etc how the megalithic people prepared food, drink and lived.. She is 5. Yes we route learn times tables, but we do this a short part of 4/7 days.. 10 mins if that.. but she is 5 and knows her 2 x table and her 5 x table.. that is more than i knew at 11