- Feb 2017
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When wobble occurs, you may feel as if nothing in your teach-er education program has prepared you for this, and you may very well be right.
I've learned more about my students and myself in these moments than when things are still and calm
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After years in the profession, shouldn’t teachers eventually figure out how to get it right? Maybe not.
A good teacher is never done growing and changing. We should constantly be getting better at our practice and have a mindset that we can continue to do this better and better to serve our students
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pecial responsibility to teach from a social justice perspective, tack-ling issues of privilege, problems of equity and access, and the possibilities inherent in social and civic action.
Yes! 100% agree that it is every teachers responsibility
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- Jan 2017
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Our school methods, and to a very considerable extent our curriculum, are inherited from the period when learning and command of certain symbols, affording as they did the only access to learning, were all-important. The ideals of this period are still largely in control, even where the outward methods and studies have been changed.
I completely agree that our curriculum is outdated. We still require so much rote memorization in the high school curriculum. I don't remember a lot of the information that I spent hours studying in high school because I've never had to use it as an adult.
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With the growth of the child’s mind in power and knowledge it ceases to be a pleasant occupation merely, and becomes more and more a medium, an instrument, an organ—and is thereby transformed.
His cotton example reminds me so much of project based learning. There's so many connections between the major disciplines in school. Why do we have students move from subject to subject every hour? It would be much more meaningful to have the disciplines integrated
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It is only where a narrow and fixed image of traditional school discipline dominates, that one is in any danger of overlooking that deeper and infinitely wider discipline that comes from having a part to do in constructive work,
Unfortunately many people do still have a very narrow image of what school should be. And some of those people are the ones making the important decisions.
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What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that must the community want for all of its children.
I think we all want the best for our students and our children but we have to be careful not to take it to the extreme. "One size doesn't fit all".
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