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How Well Do You Know Your Students
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Cherif, Abour H. |
| Copyright Year | 2011 |
| Abstract | There is a growing awareness among educators and educational psychologists that learning is strongly influenced by individual attributes. There is also a strong belief that assessing students’ needs is essential for developing and delivering a learner-centered curriculum. Dawna Markova (1992) wrote: ““Our students' educational needs are continuously changing, but our methods of meeting those needs have not been. We have basically been doing what we've always done and getting what we've always gotten”” (30). She argued that it is not the lack of ability but the lack of willingness to persevere in working hard that prevents many students from succeeding. This unwillingness stems from the fact that teachers have failed to use students' strengths in helping them overcome their weaknesses. We have failed to provide them with learning opportunities and activities that could help them leverage their native intelligence and their natural curiosity, wonder, compassion, and responsiveness. We have been teaching them the way we were taught and not the way we wanted to be taught. Building on an argument by Dr. W. Edwards Deming, a pioneer of quality-management principles, Markova (1992) has explained that people are born with intrinsic motivation, natural curiosity, capacity for invention, self-dignity, love of experimentation, sense of wonder, sense of connection, and joy in learning. Therefore, what we need to be doing is subtracting most of … |
| Starting Page | 6 |
| Ending Page | 7 |
| Page Count | 2 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1525/abt.2011.73.1.2 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://academicstrategies.ctl.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/Being_Human_in_STEM_workshop_handout.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1525/abt.2011.73.1.2 |
| Volume Number | 73 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
