{"id":869,"date":"2015-12-18T14:55:28","date_gmt":"2015-12-18T19:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benschersten.com\/blog\/?p=869"},"modified":"2015-12-18T14:55:28","modified_gmt":"2015-12-18T19:55:28","slug":"its-not-about-teaching-its-about-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benschersten.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/its-not-about-teaching-its-about-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Not About Teaching, It&#8217;s About Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.benschersten.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/laotzu.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-881\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benschersten.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/laotzu-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"laotzu\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.benschersten.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/laotzu-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.benschersten.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/laotzu-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.benschersten.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/laotzu.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I recently had a teacher tell me one of her students had accused her of not teaching him anything. &#8220;What do you mean?&#8221; she asked.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You don&#8217;t teach us anything in science.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What?! The teacher was confused. What about all those <em>experiments<\/em> we did? What about the weeks of <em>carefully planned lessons<\/em>? What about all that stuff you <em>learned<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>The student responded, <em>&#8220;yea, but you didn&#8217;t teach me that. I did all that by myself.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t this what we want to have happening? Having students play a roll in their education. Not just being lectured to, but actually learning though experience? Something needs to change if we have a culture where students feel cheated out of something if their teachers\u00a0don&#8217;t rely on\u00a0direct instruction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently had a teacher tell me one of her students had accused her of not teaching him anything. &#8220;What do you mean?&#8221; she asked. &#8220;You don&#8217;t teach us anything in science.&#8221; What?! The teacher was confused. What about all &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benschersten.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/its-not-about-teaching-its-about-learning\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14,7,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpschat","category-cpchat","category-edchat"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2B5HK-e1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benschersten.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benschersten.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benschersten.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benschersten.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benschersten.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=869"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.benschersten.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":884,"href":"https:\/\/www.benschersten.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions\/884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benschersten.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benschersten.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benschersten.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}