My Teaching Philosophy
| Teaching is learning; |
| In fact almost any good teacher will tell you, |
| If it isn't learning |
| It probably isn't teaching either. |
| - Milton Acorn |
Learning has been my lifelong passion. It involves change through the
releasing of potential, in myself and in those whose learning I
facilitate.
My preferred approach to teaching/learning:
- Values self-direction (learning directed by and toward self) and
collaboration (learning with others)
- Starts where the learner is at (inside/out; empowering)
- Engages learners fully: experiencing, reflecting on the experience,
making sense of the reflection, and creating new experiences to repeat
the cycle (which may be entered anywhere)
- Respects learners' preferred way of learning and helps them
stretch to unfamiliar ways
- Honours the cognitive and the affective (thoughts and feelings) as
well as alternative ways of knowing and forms of knowledge
- Takes chances to innovate and have fun
- Is reflexive, so that I may learn about myself learning.
| Teaching is not the filling of the pail, |
| But the lighting of the fire. |
| - William Butler Yeats |
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