A theme I explore in most of my CPD and coaching work is the challenge of teaching everyone in a class simultaneously and the pitfalls of allowing ourselves to assume some students’ responses represent the others’.
For a student to be learning they need several things to be fired up:
- they need to be thinking, focusing their attention where needed to achieve the learning goals
- they need the prior knowledge needed so that new learning can build on it allowing them to make meaning
- they need to engage in practice and receive feedback that moves them forward.
