Writing Lesson Plans
Teaching as Spoon Feeding?

What goes in...                             Comes back out?
 

Animations by S. Holtrop 1997.

Teaching as spoon feeding?  Or...?

    Assembly line work?
    Traffic cop?
    Counseling?
    Missionary work?
    Something to do instead of law school?

What's that ancient proverb?

Give people some fish and they eat for the day,
but teach people to fish and they eat for life.

What's your metaphor for teaching?

Links to other Lesson Planning pages:

      Lesson Plan Main Page
     Anatomy of a Lesson Plan:  Seven Elements of a Lesson Plan (Hunter)
     Anatomy of a Lesson Plan:  Critical Thinking (Bloom's Taxonomy)
     Anatomy of a Lesson Plan:  Multiple Intelligences--7 Ways of Knowing (Gardner)
     Anatomy of a Lesson Plan:  Instructional Scaffolding (Bruner; Langer & Applebee)
     Teachers' Roles:  What happens to learning with different teacher behaviors?
     Seating Arrangements:  How do different classroom arrangements affect learning?
     Sailing Lessons:  See how teaching sailing is broken down into lesson components
     Spoonfeeding:  Don't!

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Dr. Holtrop's Page


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