The very best thing about being a tutor is how much you learn or are prompted to learn by participating in a learning environment. There have already been so many posts in the course that have caused me to stop, think, mark, question, puzzle over.
One of these is a post by Helen, who has written:
....'we 'teach' who we are.
I haven't responded to this in the course, because I am not yet ready to. I have to think about it a bit more. Is it true? And if so, do I have to know who I am to be able to teach? As yet I don't have the answers to my own questions, but the question has been raised and by marking it here I will maybe not forget it and return to it later.
Another tension in the teaching situation and in particular in the online environment is that between moving on and holding back. I find I have to be very self-disciplined to only 'speak' when I am ready to and not when it may be expected. Research into teaching shows that teachers 'talk' far more than they think they do and far more than they need to. I know I am often guilty of this.
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