Comments on: Leader vs Learner… http://jeffwhipple.ca/2007/12/02/leader-vs-learner/ Musings about technology and learning... Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:57:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: David Warlick http://jeffwhipple.ca/2007/12/02/leader-vs-learner/comment-page-1/#comment-1564 David Warlick Mon, 03 Dec 2007 18:14:50 +0000 http://edutrails.edublogs.org/2007/12/02/leader-vs-learner/#comment-1564 Hmmm, I have to say that I would find it difficult to distinguish the two in the casual conversation that is delivered or listened to at staff developments. That said, I think that it is a very useful distinction to make during a presentation, one that breaks through the barrier of teacher as teacher. I prefer to use the terms model learner and master learner when talking with teachers -- but I am increasingly weary of trying to teach teachers to be learners. It seems to me that helping teachers to see why learning is so important, that how we learn is perhaps more important today than what we learn, is the best that I might do. If teachers start to see that graduating educated students is not so much our goal today as graduating students steeped in a learning lifestyle, then it will come to them how to practice learning in their classrooms, rather than practicing teaching. Hmmm, I have to say that I would find it difficult to distinguish the two in the casual conversation that is delivered or listened to at staff developments. That said, I think that it is a very useful distinction to make during a presentation, one that breaks through the barrier of teacher as teacher. I prefer to use the terms model learner and master learner when talking with teachers — but I am increasingly weary of trying to teach teachers to be learners.

It seems to me that helping teachers to see why learning is so important, that how we learn is perhaps more important today than what we learn, is the best that I might do. If teachers start to see that graduating educated students is not so much our goal today as graduating students steeped in a learning lifestyle, then it will come to them how to practice learning in their classrooms, rather than practicing teaching.

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