/2009/a-fifth-year-teachers-creed/ less helpful Tue, 19 Mar 2013 23:33:09 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 /2009/a-fifth-year-teachers-creed/#comment-755512 Tue, 19 Mar 2013 23:33:09 +0000 /?p=3107#comment-755512 […] understand what they had wrong when I told them “nope, try again!”  I was definitely unhelpful, and I was impressed with how little they complained.  Perhaps they’re used to that from me […]

]]> /2009/a-fifth-year-teachers-creed/#comment-446062 Wed, 06 Jun 2012 14:56:31 +0000 /?p=3107#comment-446062 […] Yet good education and good teachers have never focused on facts. In addition teaching is not a technical problem that can be solved by clever young thinkers. The gap between theory and practice is very large. Teaching is about performing magic in someone else’s head. Changing the way that they think. Sometimes that requires a positive approach, encouraging the person learning. In other cases it involves telling someone that they should do better, violently rejecting good work as something great is possible. A great teacher will know the time to sit back and let someone bash their head against a problem, getting lost and frustrated. Then find the exact time to ask the question that reveals the crack that allows them to open up the whole thing for themselves. As Dan Meyer says “Be less helpful“. […]

]]> /2009/a-fifth-year-teachers-creed/#comment-261490 Tue, 15 Jun 2010 15:03:38 +0000 /?p=3107#comment-261490 […] Ewan McIntosh: We begin to see how augmented reality contributes towards Dan’s mantra of “be less helpful” to make learning better. (14-06-2010) Reacties […]

]]> /2009/a-fifth-year-teachers-creed/#comment-253010 Thu, 17 Dec 2009 01:33:15 +0000 /?p=3107#comment-253010 […] to take a play from Dan Meyer’s playbook and put the pressure on school IT departments to be less helpful. Strictly speaking “information technology” here, what is mission critical […]

]]> /2009/a-fifth-year-teachers-creed/#comment-252881 Sat, 12 Dec 2009 12:49:03 +0000 /?p=3107#comment-252881 […] Dan Myer’s A Fifth Year Teacher’s Creed […]

]]> /2009/a-fifth-year-teachers-creed/#comment-252865 Fri, 11 Dec 2009 21:09:33 +0000 /?p=3107#comment-252865 […] Dan Myer’s A Fifth Year Teacher’s Creed […]

]]> /2009/a-fifth-year-teachers-creed/#comment-252802 Thu, 10 Dec 2009 10:36:16 +0000 /?p=3107#comment-252802 […] has been telling people to be less helpful for a while. It’s even spawned its own website. (I hope this has been done by Dan or with his […]

]]> /2009/a-fifth-year-teachers-creed/#comment-252012 Sun, 15 Nov 2009 07:55:41 +0000 /?p=3107#comment-252012 […] post connects a lot of my recent disconnected writing – in particular, my intention to be less helpful and my interest in a learning process that positions new knowledge as the solution to the […]

]]> /2009/a-fifth-year-teachers-creed/#comment-251934 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:33:23 +0000 /?p=3107#comment-251934 […] precept is out there and I’ve heard it several different ways recently. Dan Meyer says it eloquently: “Be Less […]

]]> /2009/a-fifth-year-teachers-creed/#comment-226851 Fri, 15 May 2009 04:08:18 +0000 /?p=3107#comment-226851 […] Be less helpful, etc. […]

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