Reflections on a very powerful factor in teaching and learning

• Autores: Michael Ponnambalam
• Localización: The Physics Teacher, ISSN 0031-921X, Vol. 62, Nº. 8, 2024, págs. 685-686
• Idioma: inglés
• Texto completo no disponible (Saber más ...)
• Resumen

  • What is the most powerful factor in teaching and learning? Different people have different answers, arising from different experiences. My experiences during four decades of university and high school teaching on three continents lead me to the following thesis: a loving care, concern, and compassion for the total welfare of our students, like that of good parents for their children (henceforth called parental care), is the most powerful factor in teaching and learning. This confirms the October 2015 TPT Editorial statement, “Teaching and learning … deeply depend on relationships that teachers and students develop with each other.”1 This is not new. Teachers being in loco parentis (in the place of parents) was an ideal and norm long ago, and a high percentage of teachers practiced it. It would be good to get back to this old ideal.