#CritLit2010 – Good models

I find really interesting reading Critical Thinking, by Alec Fisher. Perhaps I’ll get a sort of teacher’s professional crisis . . .;-)

At page 9 they say that  good teaching is about giving good models: I totally agree with it and, at the same time, I wonder if I’am able to do this way when I try to teach electronics to my students! Infact,  to give good models, I would need to practise electronics at the right level. May be I would need, for example once in a five years, stop teaching to go and work in a workshop or in an industry. Instead I’m living in the school for more then 15 years . . . so my electronics culture is actually a librarian culture, I can’t be able to practice “in the field”.

So, my thoughts are about this: how can I find good models for my students? If I’ll not be able to find them, I think I’ll be able to teach at an abstract and cognitive level only. Shall I be able to help my student to build their professional competences?

Autore: Carlo Columba

Nato (1956), cresciuto e vissuto a Palermo ma certamente non "palermitano doc", piuttosto mi sento pronto per un trasferimento in svizzera… Insegno elettronica negli istituti tecnici industriali ma provengo da esperienze di progettazione e produzione nel campo della multimedialità sequenziale e interattiva. Amante della natura e del silenzio da sempre coltivo la fotografia come personale e indispensabile autoterapia.

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  2. What a great blog post! Thank you for sharing your thoughts!
    I teach adults, and am largely lucky enough to be actively practising what I teach – but I still have to make time to think about and act on new and changing models.

    Perhaps you could talk to people in industry in your area and ‘connect’ your students with an industry or industries? Could they work on some practical projects set by an industry or at least visit a workshop every now and then? This could be of benefit both to you and your students, but also industries in the area.

    1. Thank you Melita!
      Actually, in our school, we organize workshops at industries for our students, but:
      – the mail discipline involved is “informatics”(they gain an informatics diploma . .), no electronics
      – we live in a peripherical region. Do you know sicily? A beautiful place, . . . with very little number of industries!
      – so we are forced to organize workshops in the north of italy: it’s a very expensive activity
      – most of the industries we can work with, are little to medium sized, so it’s very difficult to have a real “immersion” in the life of the industry! Most of times they put our students in a meeting room and run a powerpoint presentation . . 🙁

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