Learning is the journey, and like any journey, it can take twists and turns before we reach the destination. As teaching professionals, part of our job is to ensure our curriculum is delivered in a way that is meaningful for our students. We create, build and deliver our lessons in progression, with each building on the one before.
Knowledge is a step by step process, with each level building on what precedes it. This is a key element of the learning process - the cumulative effect of education. However, it is important to realize that the journey is as important as the destination. To be truly successful, students must engage in the learning process itself. When students take ownership of their own learning process, true knowledge is created.
We sometimes find ourselves moving in directions we didn’t anticipate. As educators we must continue to guide the ship in the direction that our curriculum has charted, but we should never be fearful of tacking a bit to get there.
While the shortest distance between two points isn’t always a straight path, it is educationally speaking, sometimes the most important path.
It's interesting you say that knowledge is a step-by-step process. Conveying knowledge through teaching is often best done using a step-by-step method as we've found over the centuries. That caught my eye. Thank you! ( - Zaine Ridling)
ReplyDeleteThanks zaine......your Comments and suggestions are always welcome
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