Chapter VI: Crafting Understanding

The focus of teaching is to help others understand a certain topic. That is why our teaching practice should be focused on this. But, we have to be clear about the topics and areas we want our students to learn, At the beginning of the year we have to plan what are the things we want our students to learn and understand. This priorities should be organized in a  certain order that helps our students classify this information and keep it in the long term memory. when we want to evaluate how much our students understood, we need to focus on their learning styles. Not all of them will be able to give us a definition of a topic or concept, but if we take into consideration their different intelligences we will be able to help them to show their understanding to the class. Of course, we cannot ask our students to understand from one topic the same thing that we understood. This is different in every person because it depends on their previous experience and understanding. So we need to give them the oportunity to express, without judgement, what they got from the topic. So the main thing in this topic is to be flexible. Accept their ideas and correct, Carefully!, what is not right.