A short conversational excerpt between Christopher Parsons and Kate about learning-and-development in practice. They argue for a hybrid model (on-demand fundamentals plus non-recorded live discussions) that preserves the enjoyable conversational part of teaching while reducing repetitive one-on-one or repeated foundational presentations that lead to teacher burnout.
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One thing I just wanted to just add on the learning and development piece. I mentioned that thing before about me thinking there's like all this change is going to happen in the five years more than the last 25 round L and D. And like there's an emotion I've been picking up in our community that's like people that have been teaching for a long time are just kind of tired of saying the same thing over and over and over and over and over again. And there's this opportunity, I think, if we do kind of what you articulated Kate, really well, where it's a hybrid of some on demand, here are the fundamentals and then we have a non recorded live discussion about it. Like I've been asking these people like, are you tired of the live part too? And you know, like no, no, no, no, no. That's the fun part. That's when I get some random curveball question or there's some unique thing going on in their project and I'd love to chime in on that. I just don't want to do the one on one stuff anymore. Like I'm burned out on it, you know. And so there's something for the teacher too that's like potentially really great here too.
Oh, 100%. I mean both of my parents were teachers so I heard about it all the time. When teaching is a conversation and you're, you know, you're getting feedback from the class and you're like you, it really is a conversation, then they get a lot of enjoyment and enrichment out of it and they learn and they grow as humans and teachers. And that's true. However the teacher manifests. And when you have to repeat the same base level information over and over again and it is not a conversation, then it is dehumanizing. And you know, they're not paid enough to do that.
And I can't imagine it's your best performance either by performance 19, you know.
No.
And so the idea is you can get one like gold standard awesome 105% take and then that'll stand until it needs to be, until the facts change.