Teaching is about engaging with learners. Engaging implies serious dialogue with the INNER SPEECH of learners. If INNER SPEECH is ignored, our learners end up in being #Visuallydeaf or #Auditoryblind http://www.learningdesigns.co.za/category-blog-4-columns/231-the-inner-speach-tool-to-manage-learning.html There is a solution for parents and teachers: https://www.facebook.com/groups/280845562380703/
Cas Olivier
Explaining which is also known as KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER is a content-driven approach which does not focus on the process of learning, and is probably only directed at achieving the first three cognitive levels of Bloom’s taxonomy, namely knowing, understanding and applying. Little or no room is left for in-depth […]
“Knowledge transfer” is an illusion
Learners of the 21st century need to become part of a workforce where they can function as independent thinkers, have the ability to do research, have drill-down skills to get to the core of a challenge, have inquiring minds linked to strategic imagination for solving problems, are enabled to visualize […]
Are we training for the benifit of our learnes or ...
Are you also making your learners dumb, dumber, dumbest? I should rather direct the question to you. How clever did teachings you received made you? What I mean is: To what extend did the knowledge copied from somewhere (textbooks and people) and pasted into your mind made you […]
Learning starts with questions and ends with answers and not ...
The current pass rates of the South African education system needs to be addressed. The 1st Annual National FET Conference 2013 is to be instrumental in decreasing the failure and dropout rates and consequently improve the throughput rates in line with the vision of the National Development Plan. The […]
Why mobilize towards successful teaching?
In education, spoon-feeding is understood as a teacher who feeds learners with ‘digested’ information. Spoon-feeding is also associated with talk-and-chalk, where the teacher is in front of the class explaining content, concepts, procedures and process to students. Once seen from the learner’s viewpoint it becomes clear that this is a […]
Spoon-feeding is not spoon-feeding
As an accredited provider I trained six lecturers at a Further Education and Training (FET) College in South African on the principles of great teaching. Background sketch of the status before lecturers were training in Great Teaching: The concern of the college was that most learners have to repeat […]