Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Learning Theories Week 4 Reflection
Discussing the importance in engaging your students in dialogue that is surrounded by ethical and moral decisions stood out as an important part of my pedagogy. As the teacher in the classroom, if students are not building bridges themselves, he or she should intentional have the students engage in conversations that allow them to form interpersonal relationships and trust relationships. In doing so, students can form better skills in empathy, understanding, and moral commitment. Students need the chance to connect with others, grow together as individuals, and see the relevance of their learning in the classroom. On the topic of relevance, a teacher-student relationship is a vital part of the classroom. According to Nell Noddings, when a teacher forms a relational-caring relationship with their students, they are able to develop a curriculum that does not manipulate the students, but is manipulated by what the students goals and interests are.
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Melanie,
ReplyDeleteYou've touched on several important concepts in this post. I'm a wee-bit concerned this post is lacking the rigor you have demonstrated in your other work. Could you construct a T2P hypothesis (like those you made for your week 5 homework) related to pedagogical care? Making theories real, as in how you plan to enact them with your students is an essential leap you must make to create a high-level final artifact, and to leave our course with something concrete. Please revisit this post and modify to incorporate a more concrete hypothesis about the role of pedagogical care in student achievement, or motivation, or etc. Keep pressing.
I added in my T2P hypothesis from the week before, and tried to incorporate what I said from week 4 into week 3:
ReplyDeleteIf a teacher engages his/her students in developing relationships of trust, participation, and interest, then he/she is more likely to be able to use their interest in the curriculum to foster autonomy, relevance, and motivation in discovering the material as well as themselves and others. This is because building a foundation of a relationship allows the teacher to work with the students in a more constructive approach and tackle different problems that may come up such as moral issues, demographic issues, and cultural issues.