Sublime

All great teachers teach students how to reach the high standards.

The contemporary education system proceeds under two assumptions about how we learn. First, it believes that how we are taught matters far less than what we are taught. What educates students is – it’s believed – the soundness of certain arguments, not especially the manner of their delivery. Teaching should not rely on gloss and charm. It is not,

In Bruner’s work, we see a more direct application of ideas to practice. He discusses teaching content with teaching method, such that something approaching an integrated theory of education seems to be appearing. With Bruner we see an appreciation of the ‘guts’ of a subject conjoined with a sensitivity about the way children learn. Bruner’s first

Hand in hand with consistency come honesty and trust. When a teacher or a coach or any kind of mentor is consistent in his or her principles, it creates trust between the mentor and the people he or she is mentoring.

He was a wonderful educator, and he always told us to question assumptions. “There’s an assumption,” he said, “that schools are for students’ learning. Well, why aren’t they just as much for teachers’ learning?”

“The fellow-pupil can help more than the master because he knows less. The difficulty we want him to explain is one he has recently met. The expert met it so long ago he has forgotten.”

The argument for backwarddesign is predicated on the viewthat we are not likely to achieveour target of understanding—however we define the term—unlesswe are clear about what counts as evidence of that understanding.And