mountain climbing as a metaphor for learning in the class / course system
it helps me very much to translate a complex problem into a well-known and imaginable for me or image to associate with it. So a useful test to me is the idea of teaching as mountain climbing. I'm down economical with the indication of back-translation, as I'd like everyone to his own - find translation - helpful.
Mount ...
(high school, class work, exams, tests generally important)
... is high = distant goal - it is not clear, an unknown experience and is so afraid.
... is not chosen you = want to go and looking forward to the success, or ... ...
heteronomous = nothing is as exhausting as unwanted tasks.
The rise ...
(lessons and independent work and learning - the learning path specified)
... is either steep and fast = strenuous and dangerous
(the risk of falling is high and increases with increasing altitude)
... or gradually increasing = Requires more time, longer distance but less power and risk.
The roped
... (course, class)
depends ... as a group on the same rope = common success or not.
... all help each other forward by keeping on the path and overcome problems together.
... The strongest, go ahead and go with the slower ones. The next mountain (eg specialist) is changed. With the help of well-being is created at all = condition for success.
... by using manual is both exercise and deeper understanding of the helper.
The Sherpa = Guide ... (teacher)
knows ... the way to the stages and the goal. (Exams, graduation, curriculum, etc.)
... has the technical know-how to go the way (right way of solutions)
knows ... the methods to make themselves fit for the ascent = trainer (learning methods, methods of operation) .
The climber ... (students) ...
has individual goals and his style, the way to go.
... must ultimately decide themselves on difficulty and time required for its route (as far as possible in the school system) has
... bring individual skills in rope team.
... can only climb the mountain itself, ie, solve the learning path and test stages itself.
mountain, roped and Sherpa, you can not choose the school system generally, but one can determine how to deal with them.
climbing you learn only by climbing.
determines the strength of the rope team to the success of the individual.
determined the contribution of the individual, the strength of the rope team.
who runs ahead and who falls, weakens the rope team.
Trust is the basis of all advancement. This applies to rope team and Sherpa.
Common Issues: Missing
Fitness: by cable car driving is not learned mountain climbing! The
for the target or the stage necessary skills are not sufficiently consolidated.
Lack of security and unclear solution cause a disproportionately large amount of time required and the excessive expenditure of energy in the solution ("smoking heads").
under stress block the uncertainties also the existing skill.
Poor orientation - knowledge of destination and route:
students run directly without preparation and planning of the (solution) path and without sufficient Clarity about the target release, that it is not clear what exactly needs to be done, nor how exactly you can do that. As we noted in the labyrinth
thus first that it is the wrong way if it does not go any further.
sample text work:
read selectively Instead of text on the task will only read and then looked for what purpose and tasks based marks and notes (if any).
sample text production: instead
content outline (outline, structure, etc.) is immediately losgeschrieben and thought it about the content. That is despite exam stress and complexity of the task forces to the brain to process all aspects simultaneously: the WHAT (content) and the HOW (structure and language). The overwhelmed not only a student ...
overwhelmed by unreasonable length and difficulty of the road:
instead of learning in small, manageable units over a tolerable period of time and practice, just before the "all mountain" is tackled so stapler and an . The mass of the already frightened then. The size of the task is also to address the least. Hardly anyone can survive without training for a marathon. Nor can the brain process and store unlimited number of new information in a given period, and then provide for the test (= marathon) again. In the work There is then (amplified by the stress) total chaos.
Lack of communication: Instead
eliminate uncertainties due to questions will be attempted only once and started to. This is too often wasted much time and energy on non-targeted tests. At the same success and failure are defined as "fate" dismissed.
ANGST
overload and uncertainty cause anxiety. The first leads to aggression against the cause (eg the subject, the examiner), then to escape (avoidance of anything that has to do with the postponement of the work) and finally to solidification (capitulation. I can not do that I am a [xy] failure).
solutions
accessibility
small, achievable steps form a chain of small successes and lead to the great goal.
manageable effort motivated and receives power for the greater good.
self-discipline :
Each explains his personal motivation for
Each determines its own realizable claim, as well as their individual needs for time and energy.
Any checked himself, if he understood the way and goal enough. Everyone is making itself
the necessary steps to move forward.
teamwork :
all pull together, ieeg clear agreements, mutual help and feedback. But make each other courage and panning.
guide :
follows the roped the guide. His instructions are (individually) followed. With him, the objectives and procedures be clarified that anyone can make sense to go forward. Something went wrong, causes and solutions are clear.
Do you understand or not the target or are unsure, ask your Sherpa.
(example: Summary)
Do not you know what you should do, ask your Sherpa.
(summarized topic)
Are you unsure how you can make it, ask your Sherpa.
(steps and to content)
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