7/28/2019 ENG4HW
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The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the
house of his wisdom but rather leads you
to the threshold of your mind.
Khalil Gibran
An effective teacher who does not bid his/her learners enter the
house of his wisdom, but rather bid
them to the threshold of their own.
student-centered, zone of proximal development and that we are
leaders who serve as an example of
how focusing outwards can produce the greatest results.
Teachers and learners
If (the teacher) is indeed wise, he does not bid you enter the
house of his wisdom, but rather leads you
to the threshold of your own mind. (Gibran 1991: 76)*1+
nowledge
from teacher to student, or is it about creating conditions in
which, somehow, students learn for
themselves? i.e. If you were to walk into a classroom, where
would you expect to see the teacher
standing at the front controlling affairs, or moving around the
classroom quietly helping the students
only when needed?
on learner-centered teaching, that is teaching which makes the
learners needsand experience central
to the educational process:
student activity is taking place rather than one in which
the
teacher performs well.
This is manifested in classrooms where students are given tasks
to work on (with the teachers
help) during which real learning takes place:
the teacher is no longer the giver of knowledge, the controller,
and the authority
-centered classrooms a teacher is expected to have certain
special qualities:
maturity, intuition, educational skills (to develop students
awareness of language and learning), an
openness to student input, and a greater tolerance of
uncertainty.
-centeredness, describing it as a myth (ONeill 1991)*2+.
ONeill finds it a form of neglect that we let students do the
learning on their own with teachers only
intervening when and if needed -giving role.
