Educational Reflections

  The lack of fixed meanings and ambiguity disturb you You expect your rationality to answer all questions of teaching You check the boxes as you study how to teach your students Yet your epistemological framework leaves no room for uncertainty Yet teaching involves relationship building Metaphor provide means to understand to build relationships with students To understand their experiences and convey curriculum and vary instruction Poetic epistemologies unleash creativity creating new meaning and understandings Which aid the teachers in examining new possibilities for innovation One cannot teach without feeling and thinking which poetic and metaphor epistemologies permit

  Teaching is complex as tending to one’s diverse garden. Choosing the appropriate plants based on soil type and exposure to sunlight This is akin to choosing the appropriate instructional approach based on diverse students One must get their hands dirty much like teaching involves trial and error Teaching is also an opportunity from God for mercy and grace Students may make mistakes but are we merciful in allowing revisions Or do we show them grace in in allowing revision and fostering meta-cognition Are we showing them how to avoid their mistakes and how to comprehend better?

  Oh objectivism with your fixation that objects have inherent properties and fixed relations Don’t you know objects should be viewed as entities relative to our interactions with the world? You should view properties as interactional rather than inherent Metaphor is pervasive in our language and conceptual system helping understand experience Do students have inherent properties and fixed relations or are they more? Do one-size curriculum and instruction approaches work on all students? Or must educators understand the experiences of students and their relation to them? I cultivate relationships with my students to honor their experiences and individual preferences