Teaching Vs Learning Karate 1 - Overview

In a previous post, I spoke of "Authentic Learning" as creating a learning environment and activities to be as similar as possible to the performance environment. In this blog, I compare the learning that occurs in traditional K12 classrooms to the learning in a typical dojo, and show that even when karate dojos are not perfectly authentic to a learner's purpose, that their methods are generally superior.

In a series of blog posts, I will compare the following areas:

• learner-centered vs teacher-centered
• authentic learning activities
• feedback and motivation
  
• testing/assessment
• collaborative learning

My goal in writing this series is to both influence traditional teaching to be more authentic and to influence dojo instruction to focus on best practices.