This short essay, together with dive group of pictures, is going to demonstrate how teachers and learners perceive the process of learning and teaching. The Ugly Duckling: Teachers See Learning Teachers view learning as a transforming process--students transform from the ugly ducklings to the elegant swans. In this long journey, students need to endure intense training, whose learning is always accompanied with emotions like fear, doubts, and anxiety. Students fear to make mistakes, self-doubt their competency, and are often anxious about their performance. Teachers know that these are inevitable negativities in learning, and thus they will need to create a safe classroom for students to get up from their fell. “If you get tangled up, you need to tango on.” This famous quote from the movie Scent of a Woman (1992) precisely describe the transforming process. Also, teachers know that they are never sage on the stage; they are simply guide on the side. Just as the picture shows, the ballet is performed without a teacher, the learning ultimately needs to be achieved by the students themselves. Therefore, teachers will intentionally shape the students to be self-directed learners. In the safe classroom, teachers allow students to make mistakes, set up reasonably high expectations for students to grow, and push students out of their comfort zone so that they learn from wobbling to swimming. Eventually, teachers can walk away from students, leaving them to perform on a grand stage named life. Silver Lining: Teachers See Teaching This picture captures the moment when a teacher is handling difficult classroom behaviors and controlling caprice emotions. A classroom climate changes like unpredictable winter temperature in College Station,... ... middle of paper ... ...video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8umk4w8kB8 Foucault, M. (1995), Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison (2nd ed. Sheridan, A. Trans.). NY: Vintage Books. ISBN-10: 0679752552 Merriam, S. B., Caffarella, R. S., & Baumgartner, L. M. (2007). Learning in adulthood: A comprehensive guide (3rd ed.). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass Palmer, Parker J. (2007). The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher’s Life, 10th Anniversary Edition. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. Robinson, K. (2007, Jan. 06). Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity [video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG9CE55wbtY Scent of a Woman. (1992). Retrieved from http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105323/quotes Warhol, A. (1967). Untitled from Marilyn Monroe [Print]. Retrieved from http://www.moma.org/collection/object.php?object_id=61239
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After viewing the Fear, Anxiety and Tension Workshop videos, I now realize that sometimes students may develop a learning disability based off of how the teacher acts, responses, and teaches his/her class. Another key factor that can affect a student’s ability to learn is what teachers say and how they say it. This is one concept that I plan to focus a great deal on, because I do not be the one to hinder my students from learning what they need to know in order to move forward. In each video, the instructor’s tone of voice and choice of words stood out to me. The students in the class felt very threatened by the teacher and so did I and I wasn’t even in the classroom. I definitely would not be able to learn with that style of teaching
As educators, it is our job to “be the adult” in every situation. In every interaction with the students in our care, it is our responsibility to control our words and actions. We need to be proactive to avoid challening situaitons e nstead of blaming students, parents, community, or society, we need to be aware of realistic challenges to act and plan according. By accepting these obstacles, we can do our part to help students develop positive personality traits and behaviors. Educators need to be strong adults instead of victims. We need to work harder instead of making excuses. We need to model the confidence we want our students to develop.
The job of a teacher is never easy but we have seen how cooperative discipline and enabling students to feel capable, connected and contributing can improve classroom management and maybe even our own moods. If we create an environment of mutual respect and give our students legitimate power of voice and choice in the classroom we will see positive results in improved student behavior and student achievement. Because when our students believe that they can succeed, they will.
Mirriam, S. B., Caffarella, R. S., & Baumgartner, L. M. (2007). Learning in adulthood: A
As probably studied in any law or history class, punishment in medieval times consisted of executions, and torture. Simply put, punishment entailed brutality and violence. However, with time, prisons had finally been established. In modern society, punishment is based on imprisonment, meaning a criminal is placed within a cell and kept there for a period of time, yet there are many states and countries that still permit ‘capital punishment’ for harsh crimes. The aim of this form of punishment had been to establish authority, particularly power. According to Foucault, this power means that for example in a penitentiary, there is a guard and a prisoner. The guard evidently has power over the prisoner, as he is the key holder, and he is the one that has the authority to restrain the individual from doing anything and keep him in his cell. Discipline is methods that are used by arranging a person’s actions and their experiences. Jails aim to reform a criminal and to deter crime. To reform means to transform the criminal to fit society’s norms and standards. In addition, a goal they have is to de...
Foucault wrote a book called Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison explaining his thoughts on how he discipline should be taught. Discipline and Punish is a book about the emergence of the prison system. The conclusion of the book in relation to this subject matter is that the prison is an institution, the objective purpose of which is to produce criminality and recidivism. The system encompasses the movement that calls for reform of the prisons as an integral and permanent part. Foucault states that The more important general theme of the book is that of “discipline” in the penal sense, a specific historical form of power that was taken up by the state with professional soldiering in the 17th century, and spread widely across society, first via the panoptic prison, then via the division of labor in the factory and universal education. The purpose of discipline is to produce “docile bodies,” the individual movements of which can be controlled, and which in its turn involves the psychological monitoring and control of individuals, indeed which for Foucault produces individuals as
In his book titled Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, Michel Foucault explores the beginning of the modern-day prison system and the culture of surveillance that it has created. Foucault argues that the modern penal system is one that executes mental and psychological punishment w...
Foucault, M. (1995) Discipline and Punishment The Birth of the Prison [online]. 2nd ed. USA: Penguin Books, Ltd. [Accessed 01 January 2014].
In today’s America, the educational system has been blaming teachers for the failure of students. This pressure put on teachers causes a lot of unneeded stress and can even be demoralizing. Instructors are always trying to put the student’s
Along these two weeks we have been prompt to make a recall to our own way of learning and why we became a teacher: Was it because coincidence, due to life circumstances, maybe because family tradition, was it a conscious decision or because someone influenced us? Whatever the answer is, we have to face reality and be conscious that being a teacher does not only means to teach a lesson and asses students learning. It requires playing the different roles a teacher must perform whenever is needed and required by our learners, identify our pupils needs and preferences, respecting their integrity and individuality but influencing and motivating them to improve themselves and become independent.
TED Talks (Producer). (2006, February). Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity [video file]. Retrieved from http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html