Are you boring?
Written on April 25, 2008 – 11:37 am | by erniec
In a recent post on his blog Ideas and Thoughts David Shareski ponders a question - can teachers be entertaining and informative? He created this quadrant as a visual. Where do you place yourself? How would your students rate your teaching style? Do you believe that learning can be enjoyable? Is your preferred mode of learning the same mode your students would chose? Should our teaching styles evolve and change over time or remain static?
I’ve attended lectures by people who where incredibly informed and totally boring (please don’t read from the article you have written- I can do that!). How can our schools be both engaging and informative? I’m convinced that inquiry-based learning is one way to accomplish this goal. Meaningful, authentic learning begins with the questions we invite students to create not the questions we give to them. For a straight forward look at the inquiry based model visit this site hosted by the University of Illinois - http://www.inquiry.uiuc.edu/us/inquiry_page.php. Learning shouldn’t be a bitter pill we force students to take - it should be an exciting experience.
