The Teaching Brain Quotes

“Learning happens in spurts and the skill of teaching does the same. All of those spurts and dips create patterns of growth we can envision as waves.”
― Vanessa Rodriguez, The Teaching Brain: An Evolutionary Trait at the Heart of Education

“teaching), no one has ever truly bothered to understand specifically how the teaching process and its corollary, the teaching brain, are separate and distinct from the learning process and the learning brain.”
― Vanessa Rodriguez, The Teaching Brain: An Evolutionary Trait at the Heart of Education

“Who should we trust to say what teaching is, and how does this play out in schools? How can we even begin to transform education policy or practice unless we all understand what teaching really means?”
― Vanessa Rodriguez, The Teaching Brain: An Evolutionary Trait at the Heart of Education

“As the process and development of teaching become professionalized in more formal settings, suddenly the entire premise of the interaction ceases to be a natural interplay between the teacher and the learner.”
― Vanessa Rodriguez, The Teaching Brain: An Evolutionary Trait at the Heart of Education

“Every social interaction does not involve teaching, but—unlike moments in life when we are learning—every teaching moment is, in fact, a social interaction.”
― Vanessa Rodriguez, The Teaching Brain: An Evolutionary Trait at the Heart of Education

“Teaching is a human cognitive skill that develops over the course of our lifespan. And at the heart of it all, teaching is neither an independent act nor merely a tool. It is an interaction between a learner (or many learners) and a teacher. But each one of those understandings runs counter to how we currently think about and evaluate teaching.”
― Vanessa Rodriguez, The Teaching Brain: An Evolutionary Trait at the Heart of Education