The Outdated Classroom
What should our classrooms be like today? Have they changed? Should they be changing? What role should modern teachers be playing?
The outdated:
Students are empty, static vessels to be filled by a Teacher’s knowledge
Student success is soaking up Teacher’s knowledge
Student is passive = recieves and absorbs
It’s all about quantity of content covered and packed in
What has always been…the institution of education defines what comes next
Teacher in near total control of “learning” — Content, Pace, Direction, Evaluation, Credit
Students as dependent and submissive learners
Teachers and curriculum decide what to learn
Teachers with great power: Over who wins, who succeeds, who moves on and stays behind
Contribution evaluation criteria is set from the outside, students submit to it [Maryellen Weimer, “The Learner-Centered Classroom: Changes in Instructional Practices and Assumptions”]
Content is king - Course books are the Bible that must never be deviated from
Predictable, Repeatable lesson plans as models to follow after
[Links of Note]
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