We Are Powerful Beyond Measure...

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All Things Come To An End!

In this life, one can never imagine what will happen. I never imagined that I would be teaching teachers in Egypt, and I am sure that the Egyptian teachers in my two courses never imagined that they would have been taught by an Afro-Caribbean woman from Trinidad. But it has happened, our paths have crossed, and we have learned from each other, shared, laughed, cried, got mad, discussed, calmed down, reached out, and stressed. We have been bored, motivated, impressed, impassioned, surprised, and delighted. We have felt relief, anger, pain, and joy. But above all of this we have all enjoyed a wonderful sense of accomplishment! We did it! And now the time has come for this semesters work to be packed away. All we will have are the memories, the blogs, and the stories to tell. My best wishes to you all. Thanks for touching my life in the ways that you have. In the words of my late, dear mother, All The Best!!!

Learning by doing!

The black and white image below is based on Edgar Dale's work on the Cone of Experience in the 1940s. Since then percentages have been added by unknown persons to produce the more common expressions of Dale's work as seen in the coloured figure below called The Cone of Learning. The take away lesson is that we learn more by doing! 

Educating the mind and heart, with heart!

Learning from our students!

Who should learn more in a classroom, the teacher or the students? As I continue on my journey as a teacher/learner, I have come to realise that as teachers we should leave our classrooms with more knowledge than when we entered. Using blogs has enabled me to learn a lot about my students, their lives, their interests, their thoughts and their intentions. They have also probed issues, extended questions and posed new ways of looking at teaching and learning. I have learned so much from reading these blogs. True learning should be two-way. Classrooms as a learning space for teachers and students. What do you think?