Comme nting on :Expert raises doubts over 'growth mindset' phenomenon"
https://www.theage.com.au/education/schools-will-dump-it-expert-raises-doubts-over-growth-mindset-phenomenon-20190913-p52r5d.html
Many years ago, a senior staff (in position) at Box Hill TAFE told me that I was not just a teacher, but an educator. There is a big difference between a teacher and an educator.
A teacher is one who knows the content, and presents the information to the students, while an educator makes relationship more important than content, and is proficient in all kinds of strategies including differentiation, meaningful and authentic assessments, etc.
While Edward De Bono promulgated Lateral Thinking, I like to go one dimension further and call myself a Spherical Thinker. Lateral Thinking implies 2-dimensional thinking, while Spherical Thinking goes far beyond the present accepted theories and arguments by the experts, and look into space, time dimensions, and abstract concepts. A Spherical Thinker is more open-minded, and listens to the views of the skeptics.
To be a Spherical Thinker, one acquires knowledge from as many sources as possible, in whatever form the knowledge is delivered. The knowledge is multi-discipline, spanning from ordinary sciences to cosmology, from supply and demand curve of economy to real life poverty, from Genghis Khan extending his empire border to European side of Russia to business partnering in globalisation.
Thank you for reading.
A teacher is one who knows the content, and presents the information to the students, while an educator makes relationship more important than content, and is proficient in all kinds of strategies including differentiation, meaningful and authentic assessments, etc.
While Edward De Bono promulgated Lateral Thinking, I like to go one dimension further and call myself a Spherical Thinker. Lateral Thinking implies 2-dimensional thinking, while Spherical Thinking goes far beyond the present accepted theories and arguments by the experts, and look into space, time dimensions, and abstract concepts. A Spherical Thinker is more open-minded, and listens to the views of the skeptics.
To be a Spherical Thinker, one acquires knowledge from as many sources as possible, in whatever form the knowledge is delivered. The knowledge is multi-discipline, spanning from ordinary sciences to cosmology, from supply and demand curve of economy to real life poverty, from Genghis Khan extending his empire border to European side of Russia to business partnering in globalisation.
Thank you for reading.
