{"id":213,"date":"2010-12-01T17:16:51","date_gmt":"2010-12-01T21:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/?p=213"},"modified":"2011-06-01T17:17:09","modified_gmt":"2011-06-01T21:17:09","slug":"watch-and-learn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/?p=213","title":{"rendered":"Watch and Learn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Observational instruction\u00e2\u20ac\u201d\u00e2\u20ac\u0153student teaching,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d to use a familiar but not-technically-accurate term\u00e2\u20ac\u201dvaries with the subject, but even more by the student teacher&#8217;s supervisory instructor.  The difference between strictly observing and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153hands-on\u00e2\u20ac\u009d observation is particularly significant.<\/p>\n<p>The latter is tiring, to be sure, and often frustrating.  The exhaustion, at least, is a good sort of exhaustion.  But just watching it done?  Exhausting in a bad way, the exhaustion of sitting up straight in the slow-motion purgatory of boredom.  If you thought Gauss-Jordan elimination, the generalized algorithm for solving a system of n linear equations in n variables, was tedious when first learning it, imagine watching it after mastering the advanced professional methods built upon it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Observational instruction\u00e2\u20ac\u201d\u00e2\u20ac\u0153student teaching,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d to use a familiar but not-technically-accurate term\u00e2\u20ac\u201dvaries with the subject, but even more by the student teacher&#8217;s supervisory instructor. The difference between strictly observing and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153hands-on\u00e2\u20ac\u009d observation is particularly significant. The latter is tiring, to be sure, and often frustrating. The exhaustion, at least, is a good sort of exhaustion. But just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}