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  • Nov 17, 09

    Amazing site for ESL and literacy learners - everything you could hope for in here. Created by Di Dell with contributions from other teachers at Petersham TAFE, Sydney NSW, Australia. Check out the Christmas Time link!

  • May 05, 12

    "The use of metaphors can be a helpful tool in describing our concept of the teaching and learning enterprise. There are instructors who are able to write wonderful philosophy statements that use metaphors thematically throughout the document, continually tying the components back to that metaphor. Others use metaphors only in the philosophy development stages, using it as a tool to help them better articulate their ideas, rather than actually writing the metaphor in the final document. Either way, this tool provides your audience with a solid understanding of how you see your role in the teaching/learning process.

    In the literature teaching metaphors tend to fall into 4-5 main theoretical groupings, as outlined in the following research paperby Kim McShane, who explored metaphors of teaching in universities. At the beginning of his paper he lists the following: the transfer theory, the shaping theory, the travelling theory, and the growing theory. His paper explores his study of teaching metaphors and arrives at a fifth grouping. This paper is a really good one to read first to arrive at a good understanding of teaching metaphors."

  • May 05, 12

    Wonderful insights into learning and teaching and how to use metaphors for both...

    "Learning is a highly complex process about which we know very little. But one thing we know for sure is that people learn in different ways. How can we have a sense of the way our students learn -- just by listening to what they say? A very practical approach is to take note of the metaphors in their language."

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