​​11/28/16 - Taeyoon’s Class - Learning to Teach

​​What is teaching?

  • ​​“Teaching as a relationship between people.”
  • ​​“Teaching is a journey.”
  • ​​“Teaching is a map - of concepts, but also possibilities.”
  • ​​The importance of learning to learn.
  • ​​Relationships as experiences in which you learn about yourself.
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​​Taeyoon:
  • ​​It’s first an act of generosity.
  • ​​Sharing your experience, knowledge, and - most importantly - your curiosity.
  • ​​It’s about reciprocity. Good teachers ask a lot of their students.
  • ​​“I learned the most from teachers that challenged me.”
  • ​​Taeyoon’s Cuba documentary. Teacher’s feedback: “This is 
  • ​​Good teachers are not always your best friends.
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​​Circular system of “Learning to Learn” and “Learning to Teach”
  • ​​“I was afraid of the students challenging me.”
  • ​​“I teach in order to learn.”
  • ​​“I come to class to share my enthusiasm, and to learn from you.”
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​​“I like to think of teaching as ‘structured improvisation’ “
  • ​​Youtube lectures are boring because there is no possibility for deviation.
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​​Western historical notion of education by Kant
  • ​​“Children that are not educated are animals.”
  • ​​“We need to shape this untamed animals into part of society.”
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​​Democracy and Education by John Dewey, 1916
  • ​​“…experimentation carried out under conditions of deliberate control.”
  • ​​the importance of controlled failure. a safe environment for students to fail.
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​​BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE ​😄​

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​​“American liberalism of John Dewey meets Bauhaus modes of production.”
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​​First place women studied alongside men, PoC along white people. Homosexuality accepted. A safe place for students. Rare in that time.
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​​Black Mountain College, Prospectus, 1952
  • ​​Selected faculty who are practitioners.
  • ​​“A good teacher is always more a learner than a teacher.”
  • ​​“…a great capacity for dejection.”
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​​Anni Albers, textile designer and teacher at BMC
  • ​​She was, “a prototype of a designer”
  • ​​Her work was “very computational”. Shows “the need to bring code into the world of design.”
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