We do not learn simply by having or from experience but we learn best through reflecting on our experience to result in change of thoughts and behaviours to cope with future challenges.
Relying on past experience where we ever achieved success before can result in failure of our present and future due our own stubbornness.
Repeated cycle of failure
The disillusion of being the expert without the humility to learn new things even from the knowledgeable others resulting the cycle of failure repeatedly.
An educated person would stop being educated once he/she decides to stop learning due to the disillusion that everything that needs to be learnt is already acquired.
You can only stop learning if you can stop the world from changing.
Technology and civilisation would continue to evolve where change is the only constant.
We may have faced difficulty situation repeatedly and it becomes a routine for failure.
Without the habit of changing through reflecting on our experience, we can become stagnant and difficult to move out of our comfort zone.
Too blind to see our own incompetency
It is always hard to see our own incompetency when we thought that we are already competence solely based on our past experience gained without reflection.
Past success experience can be future failure without reflection so that we need to keep ourselves updated to the present current landscape.
As educators, we should have the mindset for change. With new development of ICT tools, we should not avoid them but embrace them to enhance classroom experience for our students.
Similarly, we can be experienced steemit members but without adapting to new initiative, we can fall behind and unable to follow the rest to progress.
Embrace Change
Change may cause insecurity and confusion as well as anger especially for people who want to stay the same that makes life easier.
The only constant in the world now is change. To experience constant success, we need to change constantly.
New steemit innovative platforms and tools like @steempress-io, @dtube, @dsound and many other good steem initiatives are changes that not many of us can just simply step in readily.
We need to embrace change to sustain success and reflect on past experience to cultivate the right mental mindset.
21st century educator
An experienced teacher may not necessary sustain successful teaching without being a reflective teacher.
In the modern classroom, teachers should be facilitators of learning and not purely focusing on teaching of knowledge.
Creating the student-centred classroom, it can provide more ownership of their own knowledge created through exploration and hands-on activities. This is not a comfortable practice to the teachers who were trained differently in the past.
Constructing of knowledge by students on their own, knowledge stays with them longer and it becomes their long term memory. This is really a strong reason to promote self-directed and student-centred classroom.
Experienced teachers who want to stay the same by simply imparting knowledge alone in front of the classroom where learners are passive learners, it provides little engagement and they may wonder why students cannot focus and they are unable to understand what they are being taught.
The implication of being a modern classroom teacher is being a constant change agent to effectively teach different generations of future students and stay relevance by constant changing to suit the educational demands of our global economy.
In the recent years, things like the Growth Mindset, Making Thinking Visible, Formative Assessment and many more are just some of the initiatives of our ministry of education in different countries to ensure teachers stay relevance and current.
In conclusion
By changing our way of facilitating learning, students are the ones who will ultimately benefit from our change.
Education is tied closely to the economic development of our respective country.
It is one of the means to ensure progress.
To allow real and accelerated change, direct and brutal questions from others can provide a mirror to see our area for improvement.
Be ready and open when being questioned that can lead to positive change for positive outcome for all of us.
Embrace change by reflecting on your past and present experience actively for positive future success teaching pedagogy so that you can prepare the next generation effectively with future skills to cope with future jobs.
Disclaimer: This is my personal reflection and I am not in any position to instruct anyone what they should do. I am not responsible for any action taken as a result of this post. My post can only be a reference for your further research and growth. By reading this post, you acknowledge and accept that. All images and pictures were taken from google images that are free from copyright under labelled for reuse.
Posted from my blog with SteemPress : http://fun2learn.vornix.blog/2018/07/19/reflect-on-your-experience-for-positive-change/
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I'm not a classroom teacher now as I have been in the past. Instead, I am weight loss coach, trying to help obese and morbidly obese people change their lives and become healthy and thin.
I struggle to be a facilitator of learning as you mention. I do not want people to eat like me or exercise like me. I want them to find their own path they can sustain from now on. Often I am asked for a "food plan" or an "exercise plan," but I know these will not work. I work to help people find their own way even when they do not want to. I can give suggestions, but they need to do the work.
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It may not be easy to be in the facilitator role but getting others to discover the best way of diet that works for them is really going to help them in the long run. Thanks for reading my article and giving your comment.
You're welcome. I am blogging this information now and it is so important for me to remember this point. It was a good coincidence for me to see your post right when I needed it. Congratulations again for getting the post of the day :)
Hmm quite insightful. Learning is a continious process and we cannot expect yesterday strategy to work for todays challenges thats why as hans we are expected to keep evolving and learning. Nice post sir
Thank you!