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Comprehending Through Creation, Collaboration and Communication
This bit on the Categories of Knowledge and Skills The achievement chart identifies four categories of knowledge and skills that are common to both the elementary and secondary panels and to all subject areas and disciplines. The categories, defined by … Continue reading
Asymptotes
Reprise from my tripping over the gap between teaching and l earning: What is shown is open to imitation. What is sown without coercion is adopted without compunction. And sometimes not immediately. And sometimes not at all. It’s the difference … Continue reading
Manners
Reprise from my own meditations on quotations: Quotations, too, participate in various genres. Some are illustrative, some are authoritative, some are epigraphs. And like drawings, quotations often need to be accompanied by words. This leads me to an example. For … Continue reading
Experience Expressed
M. Travis Lane in “Skindeep” (collected in The Crisp Day Closing on My Hand) has a stanza setting off these lines Experience can bruise. It sometimes mends. It can not teach. I’m not so sure that once lifted out of … Continue reading
Roles and Models
John Sener has produced a synthesis of listserv conversation under the question Are Instructors Essential? In this synthesis he identifies three roles for instructors. Meaning Makers Explaining how and why information is important, helping learners integrate disparate content and make … Continue reading
Motives for Motivation
For a while now I have been intrigued by the objective of cultivating “intrinsic motivation”. The phrase is from a 2000 conference paper by Deborah Hanson, Ph.D. presented online at the Teaching Online in Higher Education conference. The underpinnings of … Continue reading
Early Ongoing Learning
Adrian Miles put the case eloquently for treating play with due respect. Indeed. For all the rhetoric about student based learning and the rest of it at the end of the day it largely is about providing an environment that … Continue reading
Asking Why
Vita Sackville-West in the very entertaining Nursery Rhymes (1947 Dropmore Press) prefaces a section with the marginal rubric “Further Awkward Dialgoue” with this delightful bit: Pity the pedagogue. It is indeed difficult to instruct the young. Arbitrary and ill-informed, they … Continue reading
Clatter and Buried Melodies
From a description of vibraphonist Gary Burton published in TED 9 (Teaching, Entertainment, Design) Fast Company, 1999, an apology for music Burton believes the pleasure of music has a formative impact on the brain. In a sense, entertainment is education. … Continue reading
Routes to Expression
Educational consultant, Carmel A. Crévola has brought attention to the oral aspects of mastering language arts. What you think, you can say. What you say, you can write. What you’ve written, you can read. I like how in this approach … Continue reading