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This-essay is a7704191.htm which is available at the web-site www.essayz.com. See more notes at the bottom. Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay By-Months By-Years By-Words Webs of Like-&-Un-Like ESSAYS <==> Like-&-UN-Like This-One ========================================================== %TEACHING WITHOUT FEEDBACK 770419 Teaching without feed-back from students is like trying to drive a big truck without being able to see the highway. Destructive events are very likely. Usually teachers get some feed-back. They give tests which they design according to their preconceptions of what feed-back is desirable. If they are emotionally immature they seek to avoid receiving some kinds of feed-back. Certain kinds of testing will therefore be avoided. Unconsciously they will give non-verbal signals to students that those kinds of feed-back will not be appreciated. In this way, feed- back channels of communication become blocked. Thus the teacher succeeds in remaining unaware of the improprieties of cherished instructional activities, and so feels free to continue to enjoy them. Emotionally mature educators are able to educe students and broaden their perspectives without thoughtlessly or heartlessly enslaving them to new technical orientations and modes of coping. The mature educator seeks to serve the student, rather than to maintain cherished instructional activities. The mature educator seeks to maximize student feed-back in order to adjust instructional activities to students' needs in a dynamically stable way. The mature educator gains satisfaction out of relating technical competence to students' needs and interests --- with constant feed-back from students on a personal level. The feed-back is not filtered through statistical analysis in an exclusive way which filters out personal non-technical perceptions. The effective educator encourages unstructured student feed- back. Mutual feed-back between students and educators must transcend the generation gap between the youth-culture and the adult-culture. Such transcendence is facilitated by mutual awareness and mutual understanding of the elements of the youth-culture and of the adult-culture. People are generally unaware of the basic elements of their own culture, and may find it difficult to perceive the cultural contexts which occasion others' "strange behavior". Identification of basic cultural elements is often difficult because too often we assume others are "just like us". Effective education depends upon students and educators recognizing how fundamentally different they are from each other, and respecting those differences in their personal relationships. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in www.essayz.com Search for Integrity and Honesty (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================
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