Metaphors For Teaching
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This document discusses using metaphors to describe what teaching means and the role of a teacher. It provides examples of metaphors that could be used like an octopus to represent a teacher with many arms reaching out to students' needs, a sheep herder guiding students, a social director offering students activities, or a decathlete being talented in many areas. The document encourages teachers to think of their own unique metaphor for teaching as every teacher has a different style.
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Metaphors For Teaching
- 1. Chapter 1 Becoming a Teacher: Looking Forward and Backward at the Same Time
- 2. "Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher." ~Japanese proverb
- 3. Metaphors offer a great way to help create images for others of what teaching means to you. the metaphor of an octopus might evoke the image of a teacher with many "arms" reaching out to the needs of many students
- 4. the metaphor of a sheep herder might create the image of a teacher who is guiding a "flock" of students in a particular direction
- 5. the metaphor of a social director might form the image of a teacher who offers students a wide range of activities to interest them
- 6. the metaphor of a decathlete might produce the image of a teacher who is required to be talented in many events in order to be successful at his/her job.
- 7. Just as every teacher has his/her own style of teaching, every teacher's metaphor for teaching is different.