As a teacher, one will have many different types of students. There will be students who understand material quickly and then there will be students who have real difficulty with understanding the material being taught. I have seen this first hand in my kindergarten religious school class that I teach every week. There is a student, for the sake of this paper we will call him Donny, who has real difficulty dealing with new content. Learning new things is very difficult for him and the activities tailored to help the students understand the material does not do well with him. I realized he needs a different method to help him understand this information. At the time, we were learning about the importance of doing good deeds and what different
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Dewey (2000) explains, “At heart, the educated person is a sense-maker, that is, one who can wrest as much meaning as possible from her or his experience” (p. 90). Dewey is saying that we are like this. We all learn better from the experiences we encounter. Just imagine, is it easier to learn how to tie your shoes by watching a video or practicing on your own shoes? By living an experience, one is much more likely to remember and take something from it. The problem is that many classrooms are set on the format of sitting down at desks and reading from the book or being lectured from a powerpoint. That format is what society automatically assumes when thinking about what goes on in a classroom. School is the only place where learning is distributed through lectures and readings. In the work force, most jobs train their employees by working a few shifts and learning the ropes. These employees learn the ropes through their training, which creates experiences for them to remember. A student is not able to remember everything they read or heard in a classroom. Dewey says this idea of a new way of education is something that should grow. Dewey tells us this is a new issue that we are looking it. In the past, Dewey (2000) informs us that, “[t]he school environment of desks, blackboards, a small school yard, was supposed to suffice” (p. 109). Leaving the …show more content…
I no longer focus on telling them the material or tell them what is important, I allow them to experience the material and they can realize what is important themselves. This is the way education should go. A big part of Dewey’s piece stresses upon the importance of experiences in education. Although originally I did it for one student, in the end, it benefited the whole class. A teacher must be able to foster this idea of experience making. The student most be open to the idea of a new educational format and environment. Together, both will achieve their goals. In conclusion, while thinking about ways to create more experiences in the classroom I suggest this quote. It reads, “Education as growth or maturity should be an ever-present process” (Dewey p.
Dewey (2000) explains, “At heart, the educated person is a sense-maker, that is, one who can wrest as much meaning as possible from her or his experience” (p. 90). Dewey is saying that we are like this. We all learn better from the experiences we encounter. Just imagine, is it easier to learn how to tie your shoes by watching a video or practicing on your own shoes? By living an experience, one is much more likely to remember and take something from it. The problem is that many classrooms are set on the format of sitting down at desks and reading from the book or being lectured from a powerpoint. That format is what society automatically assumes when thinking about what goes on in a classroom. School is the only place where learning is distributed through lectures and readings. In the work force, most jobs train their employees by working a few shifts and learning the ropes. These employees learn the ropes through their training, which creates experiences for them to remember. A student is not able to remember everything they read or heard in a classroom. Dewey says this idea of a new way of education is something that should grow. Dewey tells us this is a new issue that we are looking it. In the past, Dewey (2000) informs us that, “[t]he school environment of desks, blackboards, a small school yard, was supposed to suffice” (p. 109). Leaving the …show more content…
I no longer focus on telling them the material or tell them what is important, I allow them to experience the material and they can realize what is important themselves. This is the way education should go. A big part of Dewey’s piece stresses upon the importance of experiences in education. Although originally I did it for one student, in the end, it benefited the whole class. A teacher must be able to foster this idea of experience making. The student most be open to the idea of a new educational format and environment. Together, both will achieve their goals. In conclusion, while thinking about ways to create more experiences in the classroom I suggest this quote. It reads, “Education as growth or maturity should be an ever-present process” (Dewey p.