More thoughts about my previous posts... I was misunderstood....
I received a comment from Kal about my previous post about teaching:
But don't you think that this saying is untrue? And deregatory to the teaching profession?
"Those that can do" - only because they lack the patience to teach.
"Those that can't teach" - clearly untrue. Motivational speakers - teach by example. Maybe this should really say "Those that can't teach from a syllabus" - I guess there's difference between teaching from a syllabus and teaching from experience.
Overall I don't like the saying - its deregatory, but then Who the hell am I? Riiiiight.
I completely agree with you. I think that this saying is very bad for most of the teachers, for who likes his/her profession and for who really knows a lot about what he/she is teaching.
I haven't said that I agree with that sentence, I said that I was thinking about that, and now I want to add something that is valid especially in the IT field.
I'm a trainer, and I'm proud to be. I'm an MCT and I'm proud to be. But I'm not a full time trainer.
I teach for the 10% of my time and I do programming/consulting for the other 90%. I think that a full time trainer, 100% allocated to teach classes, at a certain point can loose contact with the REAL world. In this field keeping in contact with the REAL world and having a REAL world experience is the only way to teach things that matter. Everybody is able to read a book, or a MOC (Microsoft Official Course), or something else.
The best part of my lessons are REAL world experiences. I refuse to teach courses if I haven't enough experience on the subject. Period.
I really like following lessons/conferences from REAL world programmers, not from people who have only studied a lesson. I want to learn from people WHO DO THINGS!
It's a MUST for me and it is what I want to offer to my students.
That's for example the difference from going to TechEd (or PDC, or some other high level conference) and reading the slides. You miss the EXPERIENCE of the speaker, you miss REAL WORLD situations.
Thank you very much Kal for the opportunity to clarify my thoughts! And I think you have to start your blog!
And sorry to anybody else if you're tired of my rants about teaching and learning... This is the last... At least for today :-)