Hi my name is Rebecca and I'm writing this post based on two videos I saw in my ENG 220 class on what good teaching is about.

Based on the video What is Pedagogy?, the term pedagogy is defined as the art of teaching children. It was described as a process for learners to develop cognitively based on this process. Then they are evaluated to see if the process was efficient. I somewhat agree with this description because its true that a child needs to develop cognitively and psychologically through the learner process but also I believe that it should be described as a child developing as a whole; cognitively and creatively. I believe good teaching comes from encouraging the creativity within the student, and helping them to develop that.

In the video from Ted talks  Ken Robinson said that intelligence can be looked at in three different ways, diverse, dynamic, and distinct. I believe these ways are not expressed in most school systems. He talks about these ideas are squashed in the schools system because its "stigmatized" and children are taught what is wrong from early on in life. Based on my own experience I find myself saying the same things to my son soon as he was able to crawl, "No don't do that", and as he got older I found myself saying it a lot. I believe children have a limitless capacity to learn anything and everything you let them do, but as adults we are raised in a society where there  are certain things we should not do so we hinder our children from doing so also. They grow up being frightened to make mistakes and not wanting to express themselves in fear of being wrong.

After taking classes in LaGuardia and majoring in the education field I now see good teaching is guiding students/children to be expressive and original and developing those ideas into something bigger, so children can see that they are capable of doing great things.