Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Today's Reflection
Today I learned that self disclosure can be used at times in one on one talks with students to relate if they are having trouble learning. I also learned that if a student isn't learning, maybe getting them to learn isn't enough. Maybe finding out why they are not learning is important and may be a facilitating factor in long term skill development.
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Precisely so. Though we refer to them primarily as "students," we must remember that they are more than that. Likewise, we must remember that we are more than teachers.
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ReplyDeleteI don't know if I am 'more than a teacher' other than just being plain old human. And, being so, I want my fellow humans to get the most of out life. Self disclosure can go too far, they don't need to know my life story, but I want them to know sometimes what I have done or been through outside of the classroom, and maybe inside of the classroom as examples so that they realize I can relate to them....
and later, they may grab that line and I can reel in a concept or two from them, or even an entire theme......set of ideas....original work.....building something of their own creation....or even a breakdown analysis of a movie we watched in class....I call it "feeding it back to me." I would use self-disclosure in this way with a student: with a professional goal in mind. To learn first, and then teach....that's my mantra...Shannon