I recently met with a group of veteran teachers from “traditional” schools to discuss student-centered learning. Perhaps because most of the educators in my Personal Learning Network al…
We will need to accept that we have to teach in ways that we ourselves were never taught. We will have to work on shifting from a model of content delivery to a serious emphasis on mentoring students on how to learn.
We have to do the hard work of teaching them how to work with that content, how to develop a set of learning behaviors that are transferable to everything they do.