The Pedagogy of Disconnected Teaching
is used so widely, it would be difficult to find
a teacher who does not practice it in most academic
subjects, The teachers who practice this pedagogy
never connect the teaching they are doing to the
real world in which their students live. Different
teachers in the same school teach subjects disconnected
from each other. Students are there to learn a subject
and not learn to live. This disconnect from the
real world creates apathy in students, diminishes
their motivation to learn, and is utterly pointless.
These teachers see the trees and not the forest
and their students see a tree and not the other
trees nor the forest. The Pedagogy of Disconnectedness
is a weapon of mass destruction.
The Pedagogy of Connected Teaching
The Pedagogy of Connected Teaching is the opposite
of the Pedagogy of Disconnected Teaching. The teachers
who practice this pedagogy connect all learning
in their classrooms with the real world and the
real world of work. These teachers use of variety
of instructional methods to make this connection,
including, Newspapers In Education, a method which
immediately connects learning to the real world.
These teachers use model building, the big ideas
of the subject, map making, cognitive mapping of
real world connections, and connect their subject
with all the other subjects that the student is
learning.., or not. They bring life to learning,
joy to the process of discovery, initiate drama
and great poetry, fire students imagination about
how to use the information being taught daily, and
reap a bountiful harvest of student knowledge. The
Pedagogy of Connected Teaching is one way for teachers
to actually acquire twenty years of experience instead
of having the same experience twenty times.
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