Hi Jay!
Thanks for prompting us to consider the metaphors we use to describe our
work. Would you share your updated list with us when you've finished
gathering ideas? [We could even then add it to the Professional
Development Area of the ALE Wiki (where others might continue to add)]:

http://wiki.literacytent.org/index.php/Adult_Literacy_Professional_Devel
opment 

Thanks so much!

Best, Jackie

Jackie Taylor, Adult Literacy Professional Development List Moderator,
jataylor at utk.edu 




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jay.derrick
Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2008 7:47 AM
To: The Adult Literacy Professional Development Discussion List
Subject: [ProfessionalDevelopment 2096] Metaphors for what teachers do

Hi there, I'm an adult basic education teacher, trainer and researcher
from the UK. 
 
David Rosen recently posted a list of metaphors for Assessment on the
Assessment list, suggesting that people comment and add their own.  I'd
like to suggest some metaphors for the activity of teaching in the same
way, for comment and discussion.  I have found group discussions of
these a useful activity for professional development sessions.  Here
they are:
*	Doing a jigsaw 
*	Riding a bicycle 
*	Caring for an elderly relative 
*	Changing a fuse 
*	Writing a book 
*	Running a marathon 
*	Painting a picture 
*	Directing a play or a film 
*	Growing vegetables 
*	Conducting tourists round a cathedral 
*	Cooking a meal 
*	Trying to persuade someone to agree with you 
*	Doing a crossword 
*	Taking a clock to pieces and putting it back together 
*	Playing chess 
*	Improvising a saxophone solo 
*	Designing a building 
*	Sorting out a gas leak 
*	Conducting an orchestra 
*	Sailing a boat 
*	Lighting a fire 
*	Filling up a car with petrol 
*	Changing the world 
*	Unpacking a box of books 
A parallel list could be made for Learning, and it seems to me that some
of the metaphors might do for both teaching and learning.  What does
anyone else think?
 
Jay Derrick
BlueSky Learning Ltd
jay.derrick at blueyonder.co.uk
07984 649 776
 

 

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