the miracle worker
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The Miracle WorkerBlase Masserant
Teaching the student to learn
“Blindness”•Extrinsic motivation
•Led by the teacher
“Watershe
d moment”Learns to see
“Vision”•Intrinsic motivation
•Led by the student
“I simply go on and keep doing what I've done and have faith that inside she's... that inside is waiting, like water underground.”
Blindness Led by the teacher Extrinsic motivation Driven by necessity Rousseau’s concept
of natural education
Watershed moment Socrates’ idea of the soul Plato’s allegory of the cave
“Helen, the chick has to come out of its shell sometime. You come out too.”
Vision Led by the student Intrinsic motivation Driven by desire Plato & Locke’s
ideas of making learning a form of play
Anne Sullivan “The Miracle Worker”
Patient and determined Has student’s interest at
heart Personal one-on-one
relationship Can empathize with student Tailors education to the
student Shapes the educational
environment Utilizes student’s natural
needs as a tool Unleashes student’s desire
to learn