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DMM - The Method of Training |
Overall, DMM is the method of education in the Teacher Training College. This method makes the student the main navigator of his own training. DMM means Definition of Modern Methods. Where teaching methods are often organizing the teacher as the master and the student as the apprentice, DMM empowers both the subject, the student and the teacher. The subject is identified specifically and compartmentalized as one unit of information instead of being a part of the usual and continuous stream of pieces of information. In this way, the subject has been given more power by being put in relief as a part of information that has been given importance. Moreover, the student adds his information and thoughts to the knowledge included in the subject. This dialectical process is of no small importance for the creation of new knowledge and for the wonderful student and teacher experience of studies as making you knowledgeable and at the same time being a part of the creation of knowledge.
Empowerment of this quality and intensity is not normally included in any learning process. The student has been placed as what we above called the navigator of his own learning process. This empowerment is of the utmost importance of the would-be teacher. The student has been transformed from an object for the teacher to teach into a subject that learns by studying in a framework of a specifically structured road map. This, of course, empowers the student. The teacher also changes both position and situation. He no longer repeats knowledge, he gets involved in a dynamic triangle of subject, student and teacher where he acts both as a catalyst for the student's learning and as a composer of empowering both students and the subject matter itself. So if one principle of DMM should be emphasized, it should be the triple empowerment of subject matters, students and teachers in this creative and very dynamic process of learning.
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