Two “Tuning In” Scenarios by Sam Sherratt

Teacher Knowledge Teacher Experience

Teacher Issues Teacher Interests

Positives
 Easy to teach
Teacher Values
 Easy to resource
 Easy to control
The Student
Negatives

 Random – like fishing

 Hopeful
 Lack of student
Scenario One engagement
 Lack of personal student
The teacher is “tuning the students in” to the issues that the teacher involvement
feels are important or worth inquiring into. This is commonly referred  Lack of passion
to as “front-loading”.

Student Knowledge Student Experience

Student Issues Student Interests

Positives
 Ensures personal
Student Values connections
 Increases engagement
The Student  Gets “under the skin”
 Ignites passion
 Constructivist
 Developmental
 Differentiated

Scenario Two Negatives

 Difficult to teach
The teacher is tuning-in to what the students already know, think and  Requires creative
feel as a result of being alive and learning for as long as they have strategies
been.  Difficult to resource
 Difficult to control