The term 'authentic' implies some notion of reality in terms of its purposes, methods and experiences arising from it
Teaching Purposes
Starting from the concept of action learning it can be seen that authentic teaching would have the purposes of providing the learner with
- access to existing knowledge
- support for inquiry, and
- increased awareness of personal and shared experience and its relationship to existing knowledge and the possibilities for further inquiry
Authentic process
teaching is a set of activities and hence may be considered as a process. In addition authentic teaching would also be managed in an effective, efficient and conscious way. It would draw on
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knowledge and teaching and learning (pedagogy)
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reflective practice (ongoing inquiry into teaching and learning as it is undertaken
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first hand and shared experience
This leads to managing teaching as a process, perhaps along the lines of the following model:
Each step in this process would attend to purposes, policies, practices (activities), products and experiences by consciously aligning these elements (see system alignment)