Optimal Mismatch: Advancing through Strategic Learning
Learning entails growth, which involves positive change in key aspects like capacity and complexity through stretching oneself. Discover the balance between challenge and comfort for effective growth in all endeavors, including teaching and student development.
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The Optimal Mismatch Chapter Twenty
Learning means growth. Growth inherently means positive change. Change in important things like capacity, flexibility, and complexity mean migrating from where you are stretching yourself. This is true of teachers and students alike actually everybody in all types of endeavors. The problem to solve is
We can only jump so far up at a given time If learning requires too much of a leap, we are frustrated we are almost there, but -- If learning tasks require too little we can be comfortable but probably won t grow We do best in a state where we are slightly overmatched we have to move upward but not so overmatched that we can t adjust.
And so it is as we plan learning experiences for or students. If we plan so that they can keep on at their current level, they won t move upward. If we ask too much, they can t manage. That s the oxymoron of teaching!
