Partnering: A pedagogy for the new Educational Landscape

Presently, many teachers like the idea of presenting the class lesson and keeping the students listening and taking notes which is to me, belong to the old school of teaching and known as “direct instruction” (Prensky, 2010, p.10).  This strategy makes students as a banker memorized all the information but forgets it after the exam. However, make the students more engaging in a classroom help their knowledge and critical thinking to improve.

I learn that, partnering is a mutual work among teachers and students with shared respect. According to Prensky(2010), partnering is “ letting students focus on the part of the learning process that they can do best, and letting teachers focus on the part of the learning process that they can do best” (p.13). In fact, I like my classmate Pauline, experiences about practicing partnering in her class for 11 years and I am looking for word to read her blog to learn from her experiences.it is a good teaching strategy to be partnering to your students because this shows them the confident to work and present their thought with respect. When teacher treated her    student as adult and responsible about all his/her works that give them the trust in their abilities.  

In addition, I learn something importing about technology in partnering that needs to “be combined with a new type of pedagogy” (Prensky, 2010, p.17). In the past, I looked to many articles that show how technology failed in classroom, but maybe the reason is the old type of pedagogy as Prensky said or because the lack of use the technology by teachers.     

Unfortunately, in my country we did not use this method often because they still use the “direct instruction”. However, my future goals is using the “partnering” in my teaching style and get the truest from the school and the students to practice that. Also, I learned from my classmates that I can use technology during the class lesson without feeling of replace with it. Thus, thanks for all who I learn from this week

Norah Alsana

Reference

Prensky, M. (2010). Teaching Digital natives. Partnering for Real Learning. Thousand Oaks,        CA; Corwin