Translator Education : Pedagogy, Practice and Research: Today I had a very interesting peer-to-peer intera...

Translator Education : Pedagogy, Practice and Research: Today I had a very interesting peer-to-peer intera...: Today I had a very interesting peer-to-peer interaction with my colleagues in the department. I was pleased with their interest and reaction...

Today I had a very interesting peer-to-peer interaction with my colleagues in the department. I was pleased with their interest and reactions. We discussed the relevance of Gibb's pedagogical approach to teaching in a university context. In other words, teaching in order to enable students' competencies instead of providing educational experiences that force them to memorize. In other words, how to teach in order that students understand and perform at the same time. 

The core focus was on whether our educational context allows us to facilitate a competency based type of pedagogies, usually oriented to enrich students' experience and prepare them not only for work but also for a sustainable lifelong venture. 

The teacher's engineering ability in designing and developing thriving learning environments seems to be the most challenging criteria in this enterprise. Added to that, the ability to integrate the experiential model in instruction is another challenging hurdle to surmount. This continuous professional development may help instructors to lead the competency based approach to teaching & learning.

 

All in all, leadership and management support is definitely needed to activate that approach, since it will be difficult to implement that important aspect of the teaching and learning scholarship without reducing the useless administrative burden and twisted bureaucracy that usually inhibit educational success either at the student, faculty or institutional levels.