The personalization course needs to be useful. The educational philosophy (get back to Ron Miller's stuff) needs to be illuminating.
I need to remember that this is a course that is to transmit useful information to people who need to act, and in self-perceived better ways, almost immediately. So for the course .. a little bit of philosophy will go a long way.
What the teachers need is enough practical philosophy to recognize that different situations, and students, produce different demands. To put it more poetically, they need to know that the "outfit" they wear needs to suit the audience and its needs.
After that they need to know what to do for each client, or how to prepare themselves to provide what each client "needs" even if what is needed is not yet a skill the teacher has. And ... now is not the time to attempt to school a revolutionary, give them something that will be useful (even if not "perfect") and meaningful and doable in the near future.
Save the deeper stuff for a different write-up.
I need to remember that this is a course that is to transmit useful information to people who need to act, and in self-perceived better ways, almost immediately. So for the course .. a little bit of philosophy will go a long way.
What the teachers need is enough practical philosophy to recognize that different situations, and students, produce different demands. To put it more poetically, they need to know that the "outfit" they wear needs to suit the audience and its needs.
After that they need to know what to do for each client, or how to prepare themselves to provide what each client "needs" even if what is needed is not yet a skill the teacher has. And ... now is not the time to attempt to school a revolutionary, give them something that will be useful (even if not "perfect") and meaningful and doable in the near future.
Save the deeper stuff for a different write-up.
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