Being flexible is key characteristic for effective instructors. We've all been told that no plan survives contact with the enemy. Well, no lesson plan survives contact with our students either! This is not to suggest that students are in any way the enemy--the enemy to rigidity, perhaps, but certainly not to instructors or effective learning. Rather, it is an acceptance that while the speicific lesson plan is likely to change, the goal--the concept to be learned--does not. As instructors, we need to provide students with many ways of reaching the goal and we need to be flexible to their input as well.
Monday, April 13, 2015
Flex-ability
Being flexible is key characteristic for effective instructors. We've all been told that no plan survives contact with the enemy. Well, no lesson plan survives contact with our students either! This is not to suggest that students are in any way the enemy--the enemy to rigidity, perhaps, but certainly not to instructors or effective learning. Rather, it is an acceptance that while the speicific lesson plan is likely to change, the goal--the concept to be learned--does not. As instructors, we need to provide students with many ways of reaching the goal and we need to be flexible to their input as well.
