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• 23 Aug 08
  

  Kristina Hoeppner

  teaching

• 17 Mar 08
  

  Karl Fisch

  connectivism constructivism education_change experts teacher_education teacher_role

• 29 Jan 08
  

  William Ferriter

  A great blog post on how teachers can be seen as learners in their classrooms and with their students. Does have a focus on 21st Century skills.

  pedagogy blogging nmsa

• 20 Nov 07
  

  glen gatin

  07:598 blog pedagogy teaching

• 18 Nov 07
  

  John Rodgers

  expert

• 17 Nov 07
  

  he yin

  teachers'professionaldevelopment delicious

• 16 Nov 07
  

  Christy Tucker

  blog education highered learnercontrol learning lifelonglearning transparency

  • And so, the challenge is that when I try to divest myself of my teacherly voice I need to remember that this process is not about losing the voice of the expert but about losing the voice of the traditional authoritarian teacher who enters the classroom as an official persona armed with a pre-defined set of goals and very specific lesson plans for his students to follow. It is about giving the students the freedom to engage with ideas that they find relevant and interesting, not about dictating every step of their learning process.
  • I believe that it is important to lose the authoritarian voice, the controlling voice, but not the voice of an expert who chose to teach because of his passion for the subject. The students need to see that the instructor is someone who lives and breathes whatever it is that they’re studying, that they have in their midst someone who has a wealth of expertise.

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  Christy Tucker on 2007-11-16
  Reflection on showing your students that you're still learning while still retaining your role as expert guide. The emphasis here is on giving up the micromanaging control rather than the expertise. Note how he keeps the passion for lifelong learning as part of modeling for the students.
  

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