Teaching Maths and Science : Opinion

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Teaching for the 21st Century

Recommended Readings

This is a very helpful site for learners from my EDU3103 class.

http://hsc.csu.edu.au/pro_dev/teaching_online/how_we_learn/cognitive.html
Do check this out!

Bobo doll experiment

John Watson - Classical Conditioning

Operant Conditioning

THOUGHTS ON EDUCATION, TEACHING AND LEARNING

Thought flows in terms of stories - stories about events, stories about people, and stories about intentions and achievements. The best teachers are the best story tellers. We learn in the form of stories.

Frank Smith

Teaching is the highest form of understanding.

Aristotle

We teach what we like to learn and the reason many people go into teaching is vicariously to reexperience the primary joy experienced the first time they learned something they loved.

Stephen Brookfield

Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.

Confucius

It's not what is poured into a student that counts, but what is planted.

Linda Conway

A mind is a fire to be kindled, not a vessel to be filled.

Plutarch

If a doctor, lawyer, or dentist had 40 people in his office at one time, all of whom had different needs, and some of whom didn't want to be there and were causing trouble, and the doctor, lawyer, or dentist, without assistance, had to treat them all with professional excellence for nine months, then he might have some conception of the classroom teacher's job.

Donald D. Quinn

Ye great teachers: listen to what you say!

Goethe

Since there is no single set of abilities running throughout human nature, there is no single curriculum which all should undergo. Rather, the schools should teach everything that anyone is interested in learning.

John Dewey

Memorization is what we resort to when what we are learning makes no sense.

Anonymous

It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.

Claude Bernard

All education springs from some image of the future. If the image of the future held by a society is grossly inaccurate, its education system will betray its youth.

Alvin Toffler

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

John Dewey

Education today, more than ever before, must see clearly the dual objectives: Education for living andeducating for making a living.

James Mason Wood

Sharing Ideas

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