2.6.4.WHEN WE WERE TRAINED...BUT OUR ADVICE...

	"When we were trained to be teachers, and started working in schools, we…	But our advice to you now is…
1	Encouraged students to learn by rote and memorization	Involve students in creative thinking and active participation in the activities in class
2	Delivered instruction  in a linear, unilateral, orthodox manner	Engage learners in innovative activities and knowledge acquisition. The curriculum is built in a spiral manner to encourage scaffolding of knowledge.
3	Sat students in rows and they  are passive recipients of information	Actively involve learners in the  learning process taking care of their multiple intelligences and also the accommodation of difference
4	Assumed that there is a fixed body of knowledge that the students must come to know	Allow learners to construct their own knowledge
5	Transfer knowledge , thoughts, meanings, to passive students leaving little room for student-initiated questions, independent thought or interaction between students	Let Learning  be  enhanced through social interaction Learning can only be meaningful  by encouraging  authentic tasks Encourage problem –solving. Learning  begins with a question, a case, a problem
6	Learning is dominated by the teacher “sage”	Teacher is a guide, facilitator, coach, mediator, prompter allowing students to construct their knowledge actively The teacher’s task is to ask good questions and present problems and allow students to find own answers Allow multiple interpretations and expressions of learning Encourage group work and the use of peers as resources (Collaborative learning) Prompt students to formulate their own questions (Inquiry)