Involving in learners in their own learning, but to what extent...

So yes, we all want an exciting classroom and we want to be the cool teacher, have the class that the learners look forward too... This is all very good and well. We will try and and make our lessons fun and intriguing or perhaps in other ways create order in the classroom through conditioning our learners to think in a certain way when they enter your classroom. Just like the teacher did with the water bowls, asking the kids about their ideal classroom, writing their own words of expression on paper and using it in the next exercise. 

Now here is the thing...we can incorporate tools like that into our lessons or our ay of thinking, afterall it is important to be mindfull and as everyone has seen this past two weeks, being a teacher is no joke, or gap year... It is quite a serious decision one has to make, when you are going to be a teacher and I mean a teacher in the manner it is suppose to be. Not to just be another brick in the wall, rushing learners in and out of your classroom so that you can go home and continue with your life and get ypur paycheck at the end of the  month, teaching is going to be a demanding lifestyle. It will take a lot of YOUR time. Thus you have to be sure you are prepared for something like that. When I started this PGCE course that was a very real decision facing me and many others I am sure, do I deregister and go do my honeurs, or am I ready for this. I was unsure up and till the micro teaching. That was the final point were I realized I am in this for the long run. Also even if one starts out entheusiastic one will have to ensure you do not become numb as the years go on and think you know what you are doing, your classes are fine, that might be, but you have lossed the lot then. I wached many lessons of my fellow PGCE students and there wee some good lessons, however there is no such thing as the perfect lesson, there are always things one can improve on, so your lesson might be good, but do you want to be good or the best? Anyways back to bringing the kids into it...

This is innovative and so on, but to what extent do you include that in your classes, before it becomes a distraction from the work. Because at the end of the day you still have a program of work to adhere to. Moving in such fields verges on the art or perhaps cultural sides  of education and there might be a learner in your class who is a genius at maths or science or economics etc...and the information and quality of your education that you are giving the those learners are thus very important to them. I think doing such teaching through involving the learners is good, but only to a certain extent, the teacher will have to find that borderline for themselves....