If demonstration is all the teaching that is done there is a limited ability to truly learn. There are in fact visual learners but visual learners need an opportunity to demonstrate learning after being introduced to something new. Allowing them the chance to try it again, with patient instruction alongside. The richness of demonstration followed by repetition and willingness to correct as the failures occur. This is learning, this is failing forward.
Some of the best teachers are the ones who understand this. The fortunate students or recipients are the ones that can be equipped with the ability to perform any task that they were given the ability to truly learn. For a student who was once ready to learn, the poor incomplete instruction leads to declining confidence, which can cause detachment and ultimately loss of opportunity. We often see this in math. The curriculum moves at its pace, and the students who need more time and instruction, often from poor teaching methods.. don’t get it. The deficiency can lie in the instruction/ teacher method. It is also moving fast and sometimes other factors are at play such as missing teaching or too much content/ fast pacing.
People carry with them beliefs of limitations on themselves which can be from a lack of opportunity to receive good teaching. Teaching and learning can be being given the ability to do it yourself with repetition and time, being allowed to make mistakes and try again. Not failing…Failing forward.
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