Teaching by "Experience sharing" is now said to be an effective teaching technique that include an active engagement of students in their learning process. However, in my opinion, this experience doesn’t necessarily have to be undergone personally, but can be learnt through others as well.
What do you think about teaching by such a technique?
I think experience is important for everybody to gain knowledge and learn from their mistakes. Teachers including this experience with student learning and teaching as in group discussion, active engagements or interactive teaching would improve the outcome of students learning and widen the learning scope of their teachers
Interactive teaching and learning that actively engage not only students but educators is an effective strategy and has been proven to be useful in enhancing the quality of educational outcomes.
Hassan Izzeddin Sarsak
Totally agree with you. It's a two way learning process for both the students & the teacher. Thank you dear.
تتطور عملية التدريس والتعليم من خلال تطور الخبرات والتجارب العلمية والتواصل مع آراء الباحثين وتبادل وجهات النظر
I would welcome it if the statement "experience is the best teacher" could be formulated as a question, for example by using the term "right? Then the question can be answered in the affirmative - or denied with a counter thesis.
I understand this question as follows: Rajaa A. Mahmoud is asking us about her idea that an active engagement of students in their learning process is accomplished not only by direct personal experience of the students but also by indirect experience gotten by others and told to the students. I think that the direct experience is the best but that the indirect experience, e.g., stories of success or failure by teachers or by historical persons in science, would also be useful and impotant.
Experience should be based on knowledge. Otherwise, the person will make mistakes of the predecessors. This will slow down progress.
If I have correctly understood the term experience in its English-American meaning, then it is identical with the German term "Erfahrung". Understood this way, the stream of experience that flows into the individual every second, every moment can really mean anything: The irrelevant or the important, the challenging or the boring, the emotional or the mental stimulating, the good or the bad. Experience is everything. How "everything" should be a good teacher cannot be deduced from this understanding of the term. Experience means much more than what distinguishes a good teacher. The experience that determines the stream of consciousness of our everyday life has no normative criterion for discrimination. Seen in this light I can't say "yes" to the statement.
In some universities they have practice professor. Such professor are to impart their practical experience to the students. Similarly, students are expected to spend time in a company by becoming interns in a company to gain some working experience before they graduate. I think students need both technical knowledge and applied ability through experiencing the situation.
Yes, it is true, if you can not learn from experience, then you never learn.
Your experience, the experiences of your social network and the experiences of humanity tell you: the sun revolves around the earth; it begins with it in the east, it sets in the west (at night it wanders unnoticed in the dark again towards the east). This experience will not change unless you are able to critically examine your experience. That is the task of science. Experience can be very inaccurate, ambivalent, contradictory, meaningless - or really wrong, as in my example. Because in school today every student learns: contrary to our experience, the earth revolves around the sun.
Please note a Qn "The only Source of Knowledge is Experiance"- Albert Einstein
Teaching by "Experience sharing" bridge the gap between theory and practice.
Pankaj Kumar Mondal
Mentioning an authority with a sentence taken out of context is not an argument. I would ask you to formulate an argument. Because Einstein was certainly not an opponent of critical thinking that tests experience for its inaccuracy. The special theory of relativity presented by him in 1905 is a good example of this.
While one can learn vicariously from observing others, one learns the most by actually experiencing something oneself. All the steps are vividly recorded in one's memory along with the outcome. This will reinforce the learning.
I think experience is important for everybody to gain knowledge and learn from their mistakes. Teachers including this experience with student learning and teaching as in group discussion, active engagements or interactive teaching would improve the outcome of students learning and widen the learning scope of their teachers
I don't think there's anything wrong with the majority of discussants talking enthusiastically about the term "experience". But somehow it does not seem clear what "experience" should be distinguished from, if it is not a completely meaningless word. One defines, for instance, the experience that is perceived by the senses through acting, observing, behaving in the world as "sensual" experience. What then would be the opposition of experience (which is obviously criticized here), motivation, thinking, criticism, will, spontaneity? Or is experience everything possible? Or is experience the practical, while "theory" is called non-experience? This is not clear here.
We should not forget that "experience" in many - perhaps even most - cases is nothing more than learning, for instance learning from trial and error. Also in school, of course. Writing, reading and arithmetic must be learned. The strangeness of numbers, letters and the motor skills of the writing process must be practiced. At the beginning mistakes are made which were later overcome by practice. Of course, experience is also gained through cognitive insight into the functioning of processes and procedures.
In this context, the question arises whether it is possible to gain experience without learning - for example by ....
Learning through experience is one of the most important means of real learning, which can not be forgotten, and the saying says ask who tried and do not ask a doctor "اسال مجرب ولا تسال حكيم".
Interesting question. I agree with the point of all responses.
Might I add "processed" experience?
If we don't want or know how to analyse and process experience , it is difficult to learn I think.
Peer review is important for this. Students can learn new information from the mistakes of both themselves and their friends.
Hein Retter
Thank you dear for the valuable contribution in such a discussion. Very interesting to follow the points you brought up. & I totally agree with you .. we have to define exactly what "experience" is. in the meanwhile, I was thinking that in a classroom, while textbooks and reference material serves the purpose of teaching concepts, definition and methods, bringing a practical experiences as for example "case studies" trains you with the skills required to do the job. i.e. it'll be more effective & far beyond just sharing knowledge.
Ali Alhayany
Yes.. Agree .. & with applying this together with the learning process, we can achieve higher goals..
Hein Retter
Instead of raising the question " whether it is possible to gain experience without learning ".. can we make it as: "What is experience-based learning"? & in this context many theories can be included..
Lamia Al-Naama
Totally agree with you Dr.
As per my own experience in teaching medical students during small group sessions for the Health & Diseases in Population module, active enrollment for both sides (as a tutor & students) is much enriched by sharing experiences with the team
One learns more from experience than from books.experience is the name every one gives tho their mistakes.
Ahmed Saeed Mohmed
This is very interesting.. Thank you for sharing
"Experience is not the best teacher; evaluated experience is".
- Howard G. Hendricks
There is no better teaching practice than experience. Sharing an experience within the context of the lecture consolidates learning, fosters better understanding and impresses longer in the minds of students. It simply puts theories to practice first hand.
Once upon a time, when I was studying at a university (chemistry), I was constantly at a loss as to why I needed this or that “discipline”. Only few years after, already at the academic institute, university “subjects” did begin to merge in my mind into a single field of knowledge necessary for specific research. Same time, I discovered gaps in my knowledge - this is an occasion for self-education.
But why none of the teachers tried to explain to us that this system exists? Some my classmates guessed it for themselves, and some didn’t (I know people who studied perfectly, but then failed to apply this knowledge ...). For me, the whole secret was clarified in one phrase: "Learn my son! Science shortens our experiences of fast-moving life" (A.S. Pushkin. Boris Godunov).
Of course, I use this understanding in working with students (I take interns and graduates from time to time).
One of the best known educational theories in higher education is Kolb’s experiential learning theory. Kolb, D. A. (1975, 1976, 1981, 1984, 1985). The theory offers a technique of organizing a class or a whole course curriculum by means of using a learning cycle. This Cycle has different phases which are associated with distinct learning ways of thinking. Students differ in the way of storing information and producing new knowledge, and taking into account this, the first phase is raising students’ awareness of the alternative course of action that they have according to the type of thinking he/she has. This theory is complemented with the work from Goffman in this same sense in his work (1959) and (1974), where he uses the theater metaphor, to describe the behavior of people in an actually determined situation.
Learning experiences arise from Goffman (1959) and (1974) in his work "The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life" and “Frame analysis: An essay on the organization of experience”, where he uses the theater metaphor, to describe the behavior of people in an actually determined situation.
Experience without feedback and subsequent corrective modification leads to the cycle of repeated flawed experienes.
Experience can mean different things: You can understand unpleasant or pleasant sensations that lead to the differentiation of consciousness in the space-time continuum. Or one can call experience the acquired ability of safe orientation in everyday life. Or it can be meant a familiarity with the things of the next environment, without resorting to independent knowledge.
Because, as it were, everything that is absorbed by the outside world in the stream of consciousness and reflected by thought becomes experience, the sentence "Experience is the best teacher" is quite meaningless.
For two reasons: First, experience is all about myself, while a teacher is a stranger. This can serve as a learning model for me, but each person has their own individual experiences, which - unlike techniques and ideas - cannot be passed on. In this sense, experience is a pleonasm.
On the other hand, the experience gained in one field can be completely harmful when applied to another. To apply experiences in private taboo zones, in public can lead to quite a scandal. So a statement concerning experience should be examined much more thoroughly than one immediately agrees with it.
A critical scientist will not rely on his previous experience, but with the help of critical thinking will examine exactly whether an experience gained through perception is actually true or only a bad film of reality, which has completely different sides.
For the American philosopher John Dewey "experience" was the basic concept of his philosophy. And he encouraged his academic students to make a "new experience" (a chapter of his book on aesthetics and experience is dedicated to this subject). But this also means that one should not dodge the opportunity to make a new experience, even if it is risky.
It is well known that the experiences made are by no means all good. Many are terrible in a conflict-laden environment and can be a lifelong burden. The opinion "experience is the best teacher" is therefore by no means to be seen only positively, but can be a lifelong burden. A large number of suicides of older people can be traced back to such a terrible experience: the sudden loss of the spouse or diagnosis of an incurable disease. The mental illness of melancholy is related to the fact that all experiences are now regarded as meaningless.
I'll throw another curve ball based on a theme above - can our experience actually be a hindrance to effective teaching? On the one hand, as we get older, our conceptual understanding of our subjects and of pedagogy become deeper and richer. But does this mean we risk becoming so conditioned that we fail to see the 'new'? I'm an advocate that teacher and learner move together in the process of education. I'm starting to count instances now where I come across students and young professionals who are totally disrupting my so-called 'deep and rich' body of experience.
Experience undoubtedly has a great influence on our consciousness. But that's not why experience is "the best teacher". Experience is extremely multi-layered, and it comes constantly, but experience cannot check itself whether it is good or bad. This could at best be learned by a very later available experience in often protracted learning processes according to the trial and error principle.
Because experience cannot check itself whether it is good or less good. For example, it can be perceived as very good in the short term, but in the long term, the supposedly good experience turns out to be very bad, for example - in the case of certain painkillers or drugs. The bad news is that our bodies are demanding this "bad" experience and we are trapped in the vicious circle of mere experience. No, we need standards of value, "commandments" of living that judge the experience gained through our critical thinking.
Rajaa A. Mahmoud : "Experience is the best teacher"
Yes, when it is mean that more experiences are more skills. My opinion, the skills are based on literacy. So, experiences related to the skill of literacy. My research show that there is significant and positive relation between the two variables. For example, if the experience increase then also the skill, and when the skill increase then also the literacy. It is like a syllogism.
"Experience is not the best teacher. Other people's experience is the best teacher".
-Andy Andrews
Experience is only source of Knowledge; it may be your own or any others that not matter. But if it others, the other one should be trustworthy or dependable and then only it becomes Knowledge. That is your partial Teacher. Without eating Sugar you may not be know the test of sugar is sweet or sour. But from reliable source like fundamental or scientific books, Journal, periodicals news paper you may be get the test of sugar is sweet, but it is acquired Knowledge only in place of Knowledge, which we get through our own experience. Always acquired Knowledge required reference reliability.
Teachers who make a significant difference in their students’ lives – sometimes against all odds - deserve to be celebrated.
Experience is very much practice makes perfect. Without going through the process or having someone to show you how to put into practice what we learn, it is hard for us to appreciate and fully understand the mechanics of the process.
Teaching experiance has an important role in teaching and learning.
Noori Abdul-nabi Nasir
The role is in enhancing many kinds of achievement naturally.
When teaching those who do not understand your language, English for example, and the subject is computer based, example ERP system, i found the use of a mock server is important. Transactions can be made on the screen without effecting the production server.
Evidence of correct or incorrect transactions can be appreciated. Competence was assessed easly by the trainer and the trainee.
Certainly, "experience is the best teacher" because it gives us experience and skills through which we can solve the problems that hinder the progress of our research and the course of our personal lives. It means that we will serve humanity in the best way
Facebook Horison is claimed to be a virtual reality sandbox universe where one can build ones own environment and play and socialise with friends.
The concept of a sandbox was used with ERP training with great effect.
Do we see thsi technology as an important tool in education in the future to gain experience and verify the comptence o?f the learner
Teacher should be student's friend, but she \ He doesn't go too far.
More experiences help to enhance your belief, self-confidence. For example, in accommodating the students' needs.
Experience is far too broad a concept to be able to develop precise theses on it; thus the concept of experience is similarly exposed to the danger of unprovable assertions (ideologies), as this often leads to such concepts becoming mere myths in the absence of any concretisation.
Teacher with experiance will improve the class level and teaching & Learning
The students must respond. Without the students' response, the effectiveness of a teacher remains unaccounted for. Learning can only measured from students response or how well they do in exams.
Dealing with ideologies, dogmas and normative systems naturally also leads to certain forms of experience; this experience is probably borderline, since ideologies cannot be dealt with by experience unless experience itself assumes normative traits.
Normative traits like happiness, peace and love are things people look for and hope to share with others.
Successful teachers should know how to take risks. It is a part of the successful teaching . The students require to observe the teacher attempt latest things in the classroom because the students will observe closely how the teacher handle failure in his//her risk-taking.
Teaching by "Experience sharing" is now said to be an effective teaching technique that include an active engagement of students in their learning process. However, in my opinion, this experience doesn’t necessarily have to be undergone personally, but can be learnt through others as well.
What do you think about teaching by such a technique?
Agreed that experience gained is not necessary must be undergone by the person alone. Instead, one can learns through other experiences. Reason being we only have one life that can't go through so many other people experiences (I mean actually experienced their experiences). Hence, learning from them through their experience sharing or as a case study is highly desirable.
However, personally I find that experience sharing (whether gone through by our self or learn from other experience shared) is not the best way of learning / training method. Reason being certain experiences are context specific, unique in certain backdrop or unique to specific people which might not be applicable to others etc. Instead additional efforts are needed to analyze & consolidate all these experiences into or empirically tested them to form certain coherent theory or universal law to become major mainstream learning for everyone. Hence, research works can greatly transform experience into mainstream learning.
The best teachers have high expectations for all of their students and these
expectations have a large impact on student achievement.
Man, who is guided only by experience, is not able to lead a responsible life based on moral principles. Such principles stand before all experience. When they determine the leadership of the individual, they firstly select the possibilities of experience in the sense of normative obligation and secondly they oppose criticism of experience gained, which is based only on pleasure and success. But this does not seem to interest anyone.
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