Before taking this class, I'd never heard the word inventory used to refer to a survey/test/self-assessment in the education world. I took both and realized how little I'm going to have in common with the fellow students who are teachers. But how much I can learn from them as well.
I observed a training class at work yesterday and heard a trainer say she'd heard a rule of thumb in adult education is that an engaging activity is needed at minimum every 77 minutes. I thought that sounded funny as I'd heard in the past that adults in the business world typically can maintain focus for 20 minutes. I'm interested to hear all the discreptancies I'm going to observe throughout this course between what I've been taught in business about presentation skills and what I learn about proper adult learning strategies and theory.
Was glad we took class time to spend a few minutes individually thinking up answers to the prod questions for the Teaching Philosophy Statement. I've been in management training classes @ work that suggest mangers need to come up with a Management Philosophy Statement or a Leadership statement... all very similar, but I'm expecting the Teaching to be much more student centered. I'll be interested to see the others in class. and to develop one for myself. to discover what it is I feel.
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