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Reading Three: Process and Product Lesson Planning |
Gathering Speed
The following are some discussion topics or mental exercises to highlight the importance of relationship in schools:
- How much was gained from a colleague?
- How much came from college instruction:% methods
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A mental rehearsal focuses awareness on how much of the educational day is spent in relationship, in the process of working toward product. Indeed, for many, this review of daily educational practice provides insight that process and relationship are more than the background of education and are inherently valued.
Teachers expend energy in preparing, evaluating and recording a linear facsimile of knowledge. Thus it appears that content is the substance of education. In reality, there is a rich educational milieu in place, but very little of the time and energy expended in the educational day is used to measure or report the occurrences. Very little of the process or teaching/learning relationship in education is evaluated or valued or brought to the attention of consumers, and thus it follows that little attention is directed to the quality of those relationships or the training of participants in ways to provide quality educational processes and interactions.
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