The final presentation

摘要

Teaching is a much broader challenge than many people think. Even within the ranks of educators there is often the myth that it is a simple process. Teaching, real teaching, requires commitment and dedication, and understanding of the students, theschool and the community in which an educator works. The process of pulling all of these things together is very time consuming. Understanding the importance of that process is a lesson in experiential learning. John Dewey expressed a definition of the value of experience when he penned, Experiencing like breathing is a rhythm of intakings and outgivings... William James aptly compared the course of a conscious experience to the alternate flights and perchings of a bird. ...Each resting place in experience is an undergoing which is absorbed and taken home the consequences of prior doing, and unless the doing is that of utter caprice or sheer routine, each doing carries in itself meaning that has been extracted and conserved (LW 10:62) (Campbell, 1995).