Learning to describe,describing to understand: Mathew Knoester

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“Gaining understanding……………………………….. academic and social success” page 154

 

There is no doubt that the social and cultural forces impact on their behaviors, attitude and in learning environment. We need to understand especially those students having different cultural backgrounds with different social identities. Basically, when we as a teacher dealing with adolescents, it is not easy to predict their behavior and attitude because it influences even by a small incident of their day to day life and that will reflect in their classroom activities. Learning is collective effort of students and teacher together in the classroom. The most important responsibility of teacher is how he/she socialized students among their peers. Creating positive teaching environment is one of the major responsibilities of the teacher, so student feels comfortable to build up their understanding on their positive comments, feelings and thoughts. As Dewey said, “learning is active. It involves organic assimilation starting from within. It is he and not the subject matter which determines both quality and quantity of learning.” Page 150.