Improving student learning through facilitation

From: The Agricultural Education Magazine | Date: September 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Delivery, often associated with hot pizza and big brown trucks, is all about getting a product, usually in a box, where it needs to be, on time. Successful delivery requires no knowledge of the contents of the box, just speed and proper directions. Is this the principle behind education? If it were, that would mean a teacher's primary job would be to hand ideas to students at the proper time and the students would have the responsibility of determining what to do with the information. If teachers are delivery personnel, they don't have the responsibility of showing students how to use the ...

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