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Date Posted: 18:02:31 04/19/99 Mon
Author: Evelyn Evans
Subject: Re: teaching - definition of
In reply to: Hildur Kehoe 's message, "teaching - definition of" on 17:15:33 04/19/99 Mon

> Does this mb - or forum exist?
I just read your post so I suppose it does.
In one sense we are all teachers all the time.
Example:
In class in a coloring project after certain outlined figures were colored in on an ordinary piece of paper laid sideways (or "landscape").
I said "Do you want a stripe in back?" "Yes."
I made two wavy more or less parallel lines (about a half or so inch apart) across starting on the left edge - stopping at the colored area(s) and then starting again - continuing all across the page.
The students color all the parts of the stripe (let's say) yellow.
"Do you want another stripe." "Yes."
I draw another more or less parallel line (a half inch or so down) across the white page as before.
The students color it in one color.
Then - VERY OFTEN (not always)- the next thing I know the students continues drawing their own lines across the page and color each different stripes in in a color.
Each student who does this has learned something.
(I don't have the energy or maybe even the ability to come up with the exact words for exactly WHAT has been learned.)
But the student HAS LEARNED SOMETHING.
Did I "TEACH" it?
What I did was put in front of those students
- who were already absorbed in the design and motivated -
- who could handle crayons or markers or whatever -
a new idea - or procedure or whatever -
that they incorporated into their own sense of design and continued with INDEPENDENTLY.
I guess I was an enabler or an empowerer (is that a word?).
The mental readiness for adding that stripe idea, and
the fine motor physical coordination for DOING IT INDEPENDENTLY were pre-existing conditions.
Without them it wouldn't have happened.
Anyway - I'd like to hear what others think "teaching" is.

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