BEING AND BECOMING A MASTER TEACHER: TEACHING AS TRANSFORMATION

A teacher’s prime directive is to help students learn or more accurately, to create the conditions whereby students are able to learn. So, what is learning? Learning is the process of acquiring new knowledge and skills. But simply having new knowledge and skills are of little value if they cannot be used. Thus, learning also involves the ability to use new knowledge and skills to solve problems or create products. However, learning also involves new insight. Thus, learning might also be said to include making new connections between pieces of knowledge or different experiences in order to bring about new understanding, new insight, or change.

All well and good, but what is the highest form of teaching?

The highest form of teaching is Teaching as transformation.

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