My Metaphor

A response to the Your Metaphor Activity
created by Jenn Harren (@j_harren)

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Teaching as a Metaphor

The teacher as a coach metaphor speaks to me.  A good coach teaches their players how to practice, manage their time, work with their teammates, and handle adversity.  To bring that analogy to teaching, a good teacher teachers their learners how to apply the material, manage their time/workload, work with fellow learners (and their teacher), and how to handle challenges.

A strong coach provide feedback and encouragement as do strong teachers.  A good coach creates a shared vision/goal and the same could be said for a good teacher.  A coach helps players feel responsible for their contribution with a mindset of progress and collaboration as does a teacher.

The goal for both coach and teacher is to collaborate/share the responsibility with players/learners to find the answers within themselves (using various outside methods), and improve their performance over a period of time.

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