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My question then would be: can a disinterested school child be taught as well as an interested school child? Because if this is not so, then it seems to me tha
by JellyBeanThief 5y ago
My question then would be: can a disinterested school child be taught as well as an interested school child?
Because if this is not so, then it seems to me that the first task of an effective teacher is not to plow ahead answering questions the student doesn't have (and may not even understand), but to provoke those questions in the student.
- beaconstudios 5y agoThat's the principle of constructivist teaching methods - you're not transferring information, you're helping the student construct a mental model. Thus, rather than just dumping info, you have to probe the student's model to see if they truly understand, and teach to the misunderstandings.
- dublin 5y agoThe art of teaching (or management, or any other kind of leadership) is not communicating information and directing activities, but instilling a curiosity, want, or desire to learn and do. Once you do that, there's no stopping an intelligent person from learning. (As Jordan Peterson (among others) correctly points out, though, there is a minimum human intelligence level required for that baseline curiosity, and alas, much of humanity doesn't reach that bar, especially in certain regions of the world...)