Submitted by Bonnie Bracey Sutton (not verified) on August 30, 2006 - 15:20.
The wars in education are unending, but they used to be subject specific, you know, hands on vs memorization, whole language vs phonetics, and or physics last or first. Right now, under this administration , we are stuck in NCLB land, and actually all of the states have been left behind. What do I mean? Just as there is no one way to teach reading, or math or english, the trap of no child left behind is that many are not making it.
We could talk about specific groups of people, children with disabilities, children of minority origin, children who are gifted, but any real teacher knows that all children are not the same.
One of the most interesting advantages technology gave to us, was the ability to differentiate instruction and to bring resources forward that were beyond one person's scope , perspective, or level of content learning. No one party or government agency can corral all of the initiatives that are going on under some mythic umbrella of NCLB or anything else. We work at education. At this point, we are being worked over. There is little respect for teachers in the national media.
I wonder if Margaret Spelling has ever taught? I wonder how many people who are crafting these visions, know the real playing field.
There is something about having the experience and knowing that children are individuals , and that there are a variety offactors that create the possibility of learning , that makes a difference.
One of the funniest things I ever did , was to invite a few CEO's to my real school, to actually have to be in front of a class. A few were terrified about presenting, but some were up to the challenge. I earned a lot of respect that day from those guys. Teaching is an art. One of the most successful was a theoretical physicist. He could teach science to anyone at any level. I used to hold my breath as he introduced himself over technology to audiences that I barely knew while I was working in demonstration, but he KNEW how to teach, he knew his subject
and the children saw me, but looked right at him and responded. This was science, this was physics. There is also an S in STEM. Science is significant in our lives.
Furthermore, as one of the people in a part of this notebook said. There is a T in STEM... there is, there is. and there is also a respect and training that must be given to teachers and educational professionals so that they can accomplish the task of teaching.
. The divides come with the territory, we don't create them. As one of my mentors used to say under her breathe. We don't make the kids, we don't make brains. What we do is to try to find a way to make things happen so that children will learn. We lead them to learning.
The wars in education are
Submitted by Bonnie Bracey Sutton (not verified) on August 30, 2006 - 15:20.
The wars in education are unending, but they used to be subject specific, you know, hands on vs memorization, whole language vs phonetics, and or physics last or first. Right now, under this administration , we are stuck in NCLB land, and actually all of the states have been left behind. What do I mean? Just as there is no one way to teach reading, or math or english, the trap of no child left behind is that many are not making it.
We could talk about specific groups of people, children with disabilities, children of minority origin, children who are gifted, but any real teacher knows that all children are not the same.
One of the most interesting advantages technology gave to us, was the ability to differentiate instruction and to bring resources forward that were beyond one person's scope , perspective, or level of content learning. No one party or government agency can corral all of the initiatives that are going on under some mythic umbrella of NCLB or anything else. We work at education. At this point, we are being worked over. There is little respect for teachers in the national media.
I wonder if Margaret Spelling has ever taught? I wonder how many people who are crafting these visions, know the real playing field.
There is something about having the experience and knowing that children are individuals , and that there are a variety offactors that create the possibility of learning , that makes a difference.
One of the funniest things I ever did , was to invite a few CEO's to my real school, to actually have to be in front of a class. A few were terrified about presenting, but some were up to the challenge. I earned a lot of respect that day from those guys. Teaching is an art. One of the most successful was a theoretical physicist. He could teach science to anyone at any level. I used to hold my breath as he introduced himself over technology to audiences that I barely knew while I was working in demonstration, but he KNEW how to teach, he knew his subject
and the children saw me, but looked right at him and responded. This was science, this was physics. There is also an S in STEM. Science is significant in our lives.
Furthermore, as one of the people in a part of this notebook said. There is a T in STEM... there is, there is. and there is also a respect and training that must be given to teachers and educational professionals so that they can accomplish the task of teaching.
. The divides come with the territory, we don't create them. As one of my mentors used to say under her breathe. We don't make the kids, we don't make brains. What we do is to try to find a way to make things happen so that children will learn. We lead them to learning.
Bonnie Bracey Sutton