Next Steps in the Journey: Learning to Listen to Student Voices: Teaching with Our Mouths Shut

Abstract

According to Wilhelm, a teacher’s power lies in learning to work with students, starting with listening. He recommends setting up conditions and mechanisms that help you learn from your students what they are learning, what challenges they are facing, and how best to teach them. Through inquiry, the classroom can become a vital and engaging intellectual community, and the learning that results is often “hard fun.”