What Ayers means in his
metaphor about building bridges is that if you start with basic knowledge and
elaborate on that knowledge tit will help to establish new ideas and ways of
teaching. The bridge is from common knowledge to complex forms of knowledge.
Yes, there is a pattern and it can be extended in two ways:
1. Building a bridge from Childhood to
Adulthood
2. Building a Bridge from authoritative
figures to the people ruled underneath them
If I was going to
plan a learning/teaching experience I would create a lesson about a Robert
Frost poem. First, I would figure out if my students know any information about
the author Robert Frost because it will help them to understand his writing
style better. I would need to also consider the type of students that I am
working with and whether they are at the learning level in which they would be
able to comprehend the meaning of the poem. Then, I would create a set of
questions correlating to the text that would prompt for critical thinking and
the formation of new ideas. I can recall from my own personal experience as a
student being forced to explore deeper into poems that I read because my
teacher wanted us to be exposed to new concepts that were unfamiliar. I think
for this this lesson to be effective the bridge that must be built should start
at ensuring the students have a general sense of what the content of the poem
consists of and end at the students gaining a new perspective and feeling well
informed.
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