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TESOL-Italy Local Group Cosenza in collaboration with the TESOL-Italy Local Groups of Benevento, Messina and Venezia.
(TESOL-Italy, associazione qualificata con Direttiva MIUR 90/2003, confermata con DM 05.07.2005 N. 1227).
(TESOL-Italy, associazione qualificata con Direttiva MIUR 90/2003, confermata con DM 05.07.2005 N. 1227).
3 comments:
Great job, Dani! Loved the video since it confirms my view. Learning should ALWAYS be meaningful. Discipline is so strongly connected to bilateral respect, trust and positive attitudes, but above all to HOW we teach the what we teach. What do you think?
The first thing I 'felt' when I saw the video was...gosh, I did it.
When (long time ago...) I got a degree,which enabled me to teach, and I tried doing it just because it seemed the easiest way - I did it.
I just had SOMETHING to teach, but didn't know anything about HOW to teach it. And I knew even less about learning processes: the little I knew was related to myself, my own way of learning - and I was somehow aware it was 'mine': when I 'helped' my friends, my sister, my brother I had to change, to look at the WHAT from a different point view if I really wanted to help them.
I wasn't a good teacher when I started. I'm a better one now, just because I accepted I should never give up learning if I really wanted to become a 'decent' teacher...(and mother...?)
The HOW is always the real point:
any class, any student is a different HOW if you really want to 'help' them learn (learn to learn?) something.You must give them..attention time respect trust. They must feel you 'care for'.
Very difficult, extremely tiring-yet, is there anything more...meaningful and lively than realising they do respond sometimes some way sooner or later.
I can't tell you, or anyone else, HOW I teach: Quarto d'Altino 2008 is not Quarto d'Altino 2007...it's not Caorle, Noventa di Piave, Torre di Mosto, Ceggia, Marcon, Favaro.
Luv,
Dani
Dear Anna Franca, dear Dani,
I completely agree with you: during my long career as a teacher I have been giving a lot in terms of respect and trust and also demanding so much in exchange.
As you state, Anna Franca, learning should be meaningful and I dare say communicate emotions.
This way only one lesson/hour knowledge will be stored in our students' long term memory and will become re-usable knowledge.
These days I often wonder how it can happen my mind remembers events belonging to my childhood so clearly: the answer is yours Anna Franca, they are so meaningful to my life...
Yours,
Antonietta
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