Miguel Guhlin has raised some interesting points in his “Sustainable Learning” entry:
Teachers have so long been pushed down that stepping up and becoming leaders may result in something wonderful–empower children to be leaders–or dictatorship modelled on how they have been treated. I’m sure that could be said better. . .”A teacher’s job is to make him or herself progressively unnecessary.”
Isn’t this the purpose of all teaching, to make oneself unnecessary? I want to gradually become invisible to my students, only in their line of sight when they need something from me, otherwise a part of the furnishings of their classroom–one more tool they have available to them as they move through the work they have selected for themselves.
This is not a novel idea, neither is it an easy concept to manage. For so long I operated as the “sage on the stage” — imitating the teachers I had admired in my own education.
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