Re: Do Experienced Teachers Make Mistakes??

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On 11/20/09, Joe wrote:
> As master teachers, have you ever made mistakes in what you
> teach your students? Maybe you went through a lesson and
> you realized after the class that you shared information
> that was incorrect. If so, how have you handled it? What
> is your best way of dealing with such situation?

Uh, yes. The question rather floors me. Of course teachers as
well as everyone else make mistakes. Perhaps even more so
because teaching is very much a people profession and you
work with some very energetic and sometimes highly reluctant
people at that.
The least mistake a teacher makes is in giving out wrong
information - in what world are teachers supposed to know
everything?? Thinking that a teacher is infallible - or
pretending to be - would make one a pretty bad teacher.

I see legions of mistakes being made every day - some in
content information, some in how teaching is approached but
most often how the students are approached. Some teachers all
but invite confrontation from students but a book could be
written on just that one kind of mistake alone.
 

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