ANY METHOD OR STRATEGY CAN FAIL
Methodology is very important at the moment of teaching. There are different styles and strategies for plenty different goals. But what happens when a great plan fails?
Many people would feel frustrated or worst could give up, but even the greatest plans may not work as expected.
According to Paul Johnson, 2002, there are 5 main reasons to explain why plans fail, and they are: Communication problems; Lack of Leadership skills; Absence of a plan behind the idea; Passive Management; and Motivation and Personal Ownership. This was posted on a web-page called "http://www.businessknowhow.com/manage/splanfail.htm" but can be well applied to any classroom by any teacher.
How can this be useful?
Students’ understanding depends on many aspects such as: Classroom environment, the organization of contents and students' aptitudes and willingness, just to mention some of them. All of them are closely related to the 5 reasons mentioned previously, such as communication, motivation, and personal ownership.
Paying attention to all these aspects can help teachers to feel more at ease and confident at the moment of performing a lesson, and when things go wrong, it will be necessary to review and re-plan so not to make the same errors or mistakes. Even though it is necessary to never forget that it is not always the teacher's fault.
Do you really think it can be useful?
ResponderEliminarI think it can be useful...it's more common to focus on contents rather than the process itself...it's well-known that in many cases we don't give the time to work more on the classroom environment, intrinsic motivation, students' willingness, among others.
ResponderEliminarWe can have the best ideas and methods to teach, but we are not going to succeed if we don't pay attention to all the mentioned above.
I agree with those mentioned by Marisol. But we don`t have to forget that in education we are not alone. There are some other actors who do not contribute to develop our purposes. That is an ideal dear collegues but ...
ResponderEliminarI agree with all of your ideas and those of the authors...
ResponderEliminarHowever my problem is still time. I guess that in order to ensure enduring understanding in most of our students, one should plan lessons and have such great big ideas that all of the process of learning can be assessed so as to ensure students are not only learning but also that they are able to transfer all of the knowledge they learned in only a couple of hours
I agree with you!We are not the only actors in the education system, but most of the time we are the only ones to blame. UBD proposes some interesting strategies and suggestions that do not have to be dismissed.
ResponderEliminarIt is true that it is not always our fault when dealing with our students' understanding, but unfortunately in our society ,everybody feels the right to give an opinion about our teaching career. So, we need to work as a team with very clear goals for our school programs and certainly show our pedagogical and academic skills.
ResponderEliminarYes...it is really unfortunate that the blame always falls on the teacher!
ResponderEliminarThat's true, we always are responsible for the negative aspects in educations.But, making connection with the chapter, I think it is useful the UBD proposed by the author, the problem is that we didn't learn how to be a teahcer unde those parameters. We should learn more about it in this course but as you could see we didn't.
ResponderEliminarWhic of the five aspects that you mentioned do you think is the most frequent reason for failure in Chile? I think that all of them.
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