A Teaching Weakness
I love teaching. Teaching will always be a significant part of my life. I love observing other teachers and seeing how they teach.
This is not what I want to talk about in this post, but one of my favorite quotes goes, “[A good teacher creates environments for self-learning.]”
Anyway, I know I have some strengths in my teaching abilities. I can organize large amounts of information in my head for presentation, quickly, for instance.
However, there’s something I’m bad at.
I’m bad at isolating certain places of my own life journey. My life journey advances so quickly, that I end up taking for granted what I learned upon the way. And then I assume that others have learned the same things. And I’ll teach on a subject, but that subject requires prerequisite [information]. But I won’t know what the prerequisites are, because I can’t isolate them. They’re already too integrated into me.
Journaling more frequently would help me identify my growth steps. Do you have any other tips?
Minotaur Shock - My Burr
May 31st, 2009 at 9:10 am
Josh, I’ve just been catching up on some of your posts. What a terrific and lovely discussion! It’s fascinating to read some of your perspectives. There is a humble honesty here that makes your words beautiful.
May 31st, 2009 at 9:35 am
Thanks Bat! So looking forward to seeing you in September.
June 1st, 2009 at 7:08 pm
Hmmm. It’s always hard to know your learner’s background knowledge on a subject. I guarantee that whether they’re all 3 or all 63, they will all have different background information about a topic. I asked my professor about this once in regards to my own teaching at a conference of my peers. I asked her about what I should assume of my audience, because I was worried I would bore them by going into things they may already know. She said that no matter what, I will bore someone and I will help someone. She suggested it was more important to help the one or two and let the others deal with being bored for a few minutes. This doesn’t really help with your ability to isolate instances, but I hope this helps nonetheless.
July 13th, 2009 at 2:40 pm
By just looking at the title of this post, and the picture, it looks like you’re trying to say that your teaching weakness is your lack of hair.