Learning to Learn

One thing that we unlearn is that teachers are the expert. The only thing that we need to experts is; inspiring other, asking questions, and learning. Another we should unlearn is teaching is confined to four wall or pages ofa book. Also, that teaching is not telling. According to one teacher, it's "very difficult to unlearn when my district is telling me to do sit and talk with my students..." According to another teacher, they need to unlearn that they are the one running the lessons in the classroom. One teacher says that we need to unlearn that: we need grades and grading, we should fail kids who don't finish, we should slow down fast learners to narrow gaps, teachers control the knowledge.

We need to re-learn that the unexpected will happen. Teachers have to learn how to be facitilators of knowledge. One good quote from a teacher is "teaching is learning, learning is relationships, relationships are without bonds." A teacher says that she needs to learn how to provide more knowledge in practice in my professional development. She think that people learn best from each other. Patricia says that she needs to learn how to guide twoard her students towards self-directed learning.

One challenge that can occur is that most students come into the classroom and want to be "entertained." The students think can sit back and be a passive learner, and that it's the teacher's responsibility to "make" them learn. Some students just go to school, HS or college, to simply mess around. Learning has no affect on the student, the ycould care less.