ABSTRACT
Hypothesizing about the meaning of the changes that could come about as a result of learning something makes it easier for us as teachers to design exercises, devise tasks and answer questions. In this chapter, the authors hope and expect that readers who have to teach will develop their own processes for discovering the meaning of a request for teaching input and develop new and creative ways to respond to the requests they receive. Writing and thinking about teaching systemic thinking has made us as teachers more aware of the importance of communicating, and that teaching is a process of sharing what the authors understand at time ‘A’ and having our thinking and work enriched in time ‘B’ by the ways in which trainees interact with us and our ideas. To continue to teach well, they must see ourselves as part of the teaching/learning system, and also see ourselves as not able not to be affected ourselves by teaching/learning process.
