Teaching is like Dancing

It's 3.45a.m. now. Sleepy already~ so just bear with my 'crap'iness.

How would you respond or think when one or your lecturer tells you that, teaching is like dancing?

In the lecture workshop yesterday, my lecturer suddenly came out with a phrase, teaching is like dancing. I was like, Huh? raising my head from daydreaming, trying to make sense of what he had just said.

Not sure if you guys come across this phrase. But if you do, good on you. You will more likely be an effective teacher. Well, it still depends on whether you believe in it or not.

But, to those who haven't heard of it before, how is teaching like dancing?

In the context of dancing for example, you would dance to the song played. In other words, you want to perform a dance that will fit nicely into the song played. For example, a tango dance goes with a tango music. You can't be dancing a waltz while listening to hard-rock music. It's wrong~ It's wrong!!! Also, when you have a partner, you'll have to make sure that your dance can support ur partner's, so that no undesired tripping is seen.

So, when you think of it, and compare it with teaching, they both basically convey the same message. In classroom teaching, you need to change or perform your pedagogies & methodologies to fit into students' learning styles, in the aim of developing their learning aptitudes. What we see in the characteristics of a typical teacher is that some teachers stick to their own default modes of teaching: IRE, audio-lingual, naturalism etc etc. And, shit happens when students do not benefit from those teaching modes. The consequences of these are unimaginably aweful.

Conclusion? What i am trying to point out is that, as teachers, we should expand our models of teaching. This includes getting to acquire more knowledge on different pedagogies, methologies and etc etc. I still agree these things just drive me nuts sometimes. Just like dancers, they too have to expand their dance operations, not one that knows only a type of dance.

4.37a.m. now. Time to Bed.
There's a project operating at 9a.m. So dead by then~
Nite nite. Mooooo~