Feeling about Teaching

Today (after understanding the concepts of learning theories), it is now clear to me that teaching and learning are the two opposite sides of the coin, where for every toss, there must be learning (head) and teaching (tail). The two can never be separated from each other and achieving both is a must, the question is now the how part of it.

This is a simple question because in this case my role and the role of the instructional activities in such a world of constructivist classroom would be to present an inspiring and stimulating condition in the classroom that tasks students into problems that are solvable by the students themselves.  In this particular case, the student‘s activity and responses are taken to be rational and meaningful to themselves, no matter how strange they may appear/sound to others, it is upon me to determine the rationality and meaning of such responses.

In all these (described above), it shows how I have positive feelings about the theories’ integration into the class room simply because it takes: (i) learning to be a process that depends on the prior ideas the learner brings to the knowledge; (ii) that the learner must construct his/her own meaning to concepts (iii) that it is all about sharing and negotiating a common understanding of a situation.

Conclusively, I would rather invest greater time and make greater emphasis on ‘learning how to learn’ than gathering facts in terms of content for the learners.