SCRABBLE: Looking Back “Styles Of Learning”
Today’s post is the same as last year on July 21st, 2009. “WHY”, you ask? Getting ready to get married has stolen time away from me. My dear bride-to-be, Adrienne, is visiting me for ten days. She has come from Michigan to California to see what this place by the Pacific is all about. I did take her out to a nice brunch by the ocean in Laguna Beach; we went out to see The Pageant of The Master, and then she discovered a side of me she had never known: I’m a terrible housekeeper and frankly, I have been a bit of a slob. She has been whipping this place into shape and brightening my world. I’ve been taking careful notes and with a little help and encouragement I’ll be changing my style through learning.
How many people inhabit the planet today? That’s the number of styles there are to learn things.
When the local public school teacher stands in front of the class of 30+ students and delivers a lesson, the odds are high that some of the kids didn’t get it the first time. It is the teachers’ mission to discover the way each student learns and help each in their own way.
Good teaching is not easy.
Too often, presenters, who call themselves teachers, serve up a lesson with all the necessary information on a silver platter, and expect the students to figure out how to ingest it. Presenting is only one piece of the equation.
If you speak Russian and I present my lecture in English there will be little learned. Even if I lecture in Russian there is no automatic guarantee that the lesson will be comprehended.
If a teacher is being effective there will be teaching then testing, teaching then asking, teaching then validating.
Most first time learners don’t get the full lesson in one or even a few tries. Skiing, geometry, painting with watercolors, working at a job, playing competitive scrabble all require some amount of time to learn the skills and apply them. It takes time to get up to speed.
Don’t go to a Barber College if you plan to be an auto mechanic. Don’t ask scrabble advice from a newbie if you have intentions on taking a giant leap ahead in the ranks.
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