One of my RSS feeds comes from edutopia.org. The one blog that caught my attention was the Teacher is the Driving Force by Ben Johnson. He had an analogy of putting a dryer back together that was making a weird sound. He did not put the dryer belt back on its track correctly so the drum did not turn. His analogy was if the drum on a dryer does not spin then the clothes on top would be the only clothes to dry. His comparison to his teaching was if he only teaches one way then the only students at the top will benefit from his teaching.
He changed the way he teaches now, he greets his students at the door, he increased their kinesthetic learning, and he gave them choices and became confident in his teaching styles.
He states “The message to all educators and educational leaders is straight-forward: In order to increase student learning, more attention needs to be focused on increasing the capacity and effectiveness of the driving power of the classroom -- the teacher. The lesson of the dryer is that one way works and the other way doesn't. I would be interested in hearing about what amazing results you have had by changing your perspective”. (Johnson, 2010).
I will not be using this information in my paper (not very scholarly source) I did find it interesting is analogy. How can something work if all the pieces are not in the right place? Sort of like our papers if we do not have the right research sources how will we be able to write a good paper.
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/tips-effective-teaching-ben-johnson
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