Yoram Harpaz and Adam Lefstein
Communities of Thinking;
- critical, creative, inquisitive
- skills, dispositions, understanding
- in the disciplines
- with others
Atomic pictures of (traditional) teachers concepts of education:
- learning is listening
- teaching is telling
- knowledge is an object
- the mind is a container
- to be educated is to know valuable content
How we think is not necessarily how we behave.
Effective teaching
- Involvement and understanding in the process, and of the product
Conditions necessary
- Intrinsic motivation - the passion to learn - authentic problems, personalise the problem, turn the curriculum into problems - undermine, the world behaves according to own expectations.
Alignment - we need to be put out of alignment to learn - contents and process match student profile and skills - appropriate and challenging.
Environment - dialogic - knowledge is distributed in other people's minds - informative, ongoing, feedback.
Attribution - ability and will vs other people or luck, poor learners blame others, luck - good learners blame ability or effort - incremental learners vs entity learners, poor learners see learning as a whole and will give up, good learners see learning as incremental and will take steps.
Atomic pictures of teachers concepts of education (now):
- learning is being involved and understanding
- teaching is providing conditions for effective learning
- knowledge is a structure, a story that works, a connection to our internal world
- the mind is an activity and meaning making - create stories -being educated is learning how to relate to knowledge - with enthusiasm, with curiosity, in critical ways.