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Monday, October 29, 2007
Learning: Whose Responsibility Is It?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
For a while now, I’ve been mulling over the concepts of teaching and learning. I mean, when you think about it: Can one exist without the other?
It’s a kind of chicken-or-the-egg riddle.
Whenever the subject is broached on this blog, it seems teachers quickly blame the child for not learning, rather than themselves or their colleagues for not teaching.
How many times have you complained that your students do not come to class prepared? How many times do you argue that kids these days just don’t care?
Perhaps, that’s an impossible standard — to expect every teacher to reach every child in the classroom. But when large numbers of students aren’t learning: Is it the teacher or the child who is to blame?
In other words, when it comes to learning, whose responsibility is it?
