ELECTRONIC MAIL AND TASK-ORIENTED TEACHING
- aims at common and equal actions of teachers and students
- gives way towards an organization and reponsibility of the
students themselves
- leads gradually to a growing responsibility and self-control of
the students
- refers to the interest of the persons involved
- allows the trial-and-error principle: mistakes are allowed
- requires patience, stamina and persistence
- means the elemination of strict guidance and instruction
- turns the teacher's role to the one of an adviser, moderator,
organiser and initiator
- is task-oriented (based on students' activities)
- aims at changes of attitudes
- stimulates thinking by doing
- includes intellectual, emotional and motoric elements
- improves complex thinking
- diminishes the artificial isolation of facts and action
- encloses actions such as doing research, discovery, making
excerpts, structuring, and encloses fields such as
experimentation, production, organisation, cooperation,
discussion, argumentation, interviewing, creating
- leads to a knowledge that is experienced and learnt not merely
taught by words and symbols or simply by taking notice
is motivating
(this text is based on ideas of Reinhardt Donath from Aurich /
Germany)
Peter Obermeier, Albrecht-Duerer-Str. 11 A, D-28209 Bremen,
Germany
e-mail:
peter.obermeier@po.hb.shuttle.de