(Sept. 28 entrance slip): Max van Manen on the tact of teaching

Entrance slip – Max Van Manen on “tact in teaching”                          Sep 25, 2017

First quote:

“It is important that teachers understand the positive as well as the possible negative consequences of praising students. A compliment should be meaningful and should not be granted indiscriminately because, if given too readily and freely it may lose its significance”

According to my view as a teacher, it is very important to reward the students in the classroom and rewards should be meaningful and provoking. No matter students are wrong or right in the classroom. It is the teacher responsibility to create a safe, healthy and positive environment where both effective teaching and learning can take place. In the absence of positive environment, both teacher and students would suffer. It is a teacher responsibility to understand the negative and positive results if he /she are not respecting the students. In the classroom, there should be a mutual bond between the student and teacher,  to create the healthy learning atmosphere. If this kind of tact does not involve in teaching, teacher, student and parents would suffer.

Second:

 “Reflective thinking is important not only as a tool for teaching but also as an aim of education, said (Dewery, 1964).”

The aim of education is to deliver the right information to the future students. If the teacher is delivering right information than the future students will get successes that reflect the hard work and critical thinking of teachers.  Reflective thinking is a powerful tool used in the teaching to help develop a higher order of learning.

Third:

“The study of the practice of teaching would need to be sensitive to the experimental quality of practice knowledge:  the acknowledgment that much of this tact, this instant knowing what to do, ensues from one’s body and from the things and the atmosphere of one’s world”.

I would say as a teacher practical knowledge always surrounds. As a biology teacher practice aspects encourage the student’s curiosity and interest towards the hand on experiments whether the practice is  In -situ or In –vivo, this practicality also generates the interest towards the nature around the world. In order to have this tact of teaching,  the teacher should focus on the practical things instead of theoretical. Practical knowledge always acknowledges it is important to think what to do? where to do?  The intact practice ensures from teacher to students in the atmospheric world. 

Have a happy reading!!!