Chapter 3: Gaining Clarity on Our Goals

        Goals are the most important part of the process of learning. Moreover, it is a process that is not solely done by the teachers, but also by the students. If we want our students to gain understanding in their learning process, then we must include their needs in order to develop it. That is one role of the teachers: to clarify and help students to understand how the course is working for their benefit, and how the goals expected help them in their learning. 

        Teachers tend to make the twin sins Wiggins talks about, every day in every school. On the one hand, the sin of aimless coverage content, to drill in subjects that are meaningless and do not go anywhere. The learning becomes a mechanical process of merely memorization, and there is no purpose in the topics discussed or the content.

        On the other hand, the isolated activities some teachers are used to do. Watching videos with no further objectives, reading texts with no thinking afterwards, or the creation of dialogues and their memorization with the solely goal of expose them to the class. There is no learning comming from any of these situations. There is only boredoom and time wasted.