limiting+student+learning

As I thought more about how I possibly stifle student learning by telling them which of their ideas won't work in efforts to save time during the class period instead of allowing them the time to learn from their experiences I had another thought.

I do not know if you have similar experiences or not but as I teach a lesson three times in a day I tend to 'weed' out student thoughts or steer a lesson towards our goal for the day as I encounter student misconceptions. I now realize that not only am I unconsciously limiting their learning during the class but that I am altering the experiences for my students as a class as the day progresses.

What do you think?

[Nicholas] You are echoing the voice of my conscience as I reflect on the tendencies I have shown in the fourth discussion of a certain topic in the same day. It is difficult to avoid doing this, in my experience. It gets easier as your focus become more and more on the learning process itself rather than on the endpoint. [/Nicholas]