by glpadmin | Jun 5, 2013 | Speaking of Dialogue
The system that is Dialogue Education demands safety. Learners must feel safe with the content, with the teacher, with the environment, with their colleagues. The designer/teacher must feel safe with her partners, with her design, with the group of learners, with the...
by glpadmin | Jun 26, 2013 | Speaking of Dialogue
My good friend Agnes took the course Learning To Listen, Learning To Teach years ago. She had a hard time, as a professor, moving from telling to teaching, using Dialogue Education. We walked around the lake in Raleigh N.C. many a time while I gave examples of...
by glpadmin | Jul 17, 2013 | Speaking of Dialogue
“If I only had enough time I could cover this subject!” You may have said this yourself. And I’d be surprised if you hadn’t heard other teachers say it! If the content of a learning event is worth its salt in meaning...
by glpadmin | Jul 25, 2013 | Speaking of Dialogue
One of the best ways to show respect of a group of learners is to put them to work on learning a tough set of relevant, immediately useful, complex, intricate and dense content (or, in Dialogue Education’s 8 Steps of Design, what we like to call the WHAT). Such...
by glpadmin | Aug 21, 2013 | Speaking of Dialogue
It’s true, my friends! Teachers are neuroplasticians. In The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science, Norman Doidge M.D. coins the word neuroplasticians to describe those who – quite literally – change the brain. I...
