Jan Nedermeijer
3 June 2013
- Find a big wall or a big sheet of paper and draw the diagram in Fig. 3, par. 2.2.
Write in big, bold letters under your diagram: YOU WORK FOR ME, NOT ME FOR YOU!
- Stand on one leg and repeat three times: ‘I’m intuitive, I’m creative, I can think logically’.
- Find a very quiet place (a place you like) and think about the students you are going to teach tomorrow, or next week, or next month, or whenever. Think about their intellectual, emotional, spiritual and physical quadrants.
- Learn this definition by heart: ‘A responsive environment organizer is a special bit of content (a system of stimuli) capable, in the hands of the designer using it, of generating the responses needed to shape the student’s learning to the instructional goals that have been set, in an interesting and meaningful way’.
- If you are ever in a taxi in New York, explain briefly to the driver what an REO is. Ask him or her for an REO for a course in training New York taxi drivers to be good NY drivers.
- Talk to yourself about the fishbone model (Fig. 6, par. 2.5).
- As a designer: think clearly, act decisively, but provide for safety first.
