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Comment on Spinning the positive by Tracy

Tracy — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 12:02:27 +0000

It is inspirational and that’s a question I want to ask my students, among others. Why is it inspirational? What are the inherent inspirational qualities of the work they do? How can we create more of that?

Comment on Spinning the positive by David Duez

David Duez — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:17:48 +0000

I love it. Will definitely use this on Monday to inspire my AVID students. We watched “Invisible Children” today and many of them cried. It’s such a sad story. But, this is very inspirational. Hopefully it will balance it out a little and give them a positive feeling.

Thanks so much for sharing.
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Comment on the very best teachers… by Tracy

Tracy — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:13:19 +0000

Good question. I’ve been seeing it globally – as that which we are told to teach by our provinces/states, largely content based. Having said that, and I touched on this in my follow-up post, Quebec’s curriculum is not only content-based but also focuses on methodology and lifelong learning. I claimed that this made it easier to subvert

Comment on the very best teachers… by Angela Stockman

Angela Stockman — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 02:32:31 +0000

How are we defining curriculum?
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Comment on Why do the very best teachers ignore/subvert curriculum? by More on Subverting the Curriculum | Inner Education for Inward Educators

More on Subverting the Curriculum | Inner Education for Inward Educators — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 22:44:17 +0000

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Comment on Why do the very best teachers ignore/subvert curriculum? by Tracy

Tracy — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:29:54 +0000

I find that kids soon get used to worksheetless learning and sometimes even start to resent the worksheets given out by some of their other teachers. They realize that it is busy work and doesn’t honour their role in learning.

Here’s a question for you – why do you think those are the lessons they remember?

Thanks for your comment!

Comment on Why do the very best teachers ignore/subvert curriculum? by JasonP / InnerEd

JasonP / InnerEd — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 03:34:10 +0000

Here, Here! You got me thinking that some of my best units this year have been ones where I’ve broken the mold a bit, and the one that I’d like to scrap and start over is the most traditional and “check off the standards” based.

I discovered that experimenting is a hard thing to do as fun as it is. There’s more explaining to your department chair about why you’re doing what you’re doing (“When are you starting Julius Caesar, again?), more explaining to the kids (Why are we doing this? Why aren’t other classes doing this? Can’t you just give us a worksheet?), and more explaining to parents (How exactly will building a model school help my son raise his ACT?).

But as much fun as it is, what do my kids mention to me when they reflect on the last semester: those off-the-wall learning things we did–film a commericial, research arguments, create a proposal for a new school–not the quiz on short stories in November.

I linked here from my blog.

Comment on Why do the very best teachers ignore/subvert curriculum? by Inner Education for Inward Educators

Inner Education for Inward Educators — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 03:27:11 +0000

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Tracy is speaking my language: The very best teachers spend every day of their lives ignoring or subverting the curriculum. I agree heartily. It seems my best units this year have been ones when I have been the most creative and experimental with ……

Comment on Why do the very best teachers ignore/subvert curriculum? by Tracy

Tracy — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 14:35:21 +0000

Our system is also very curriculum driven, it’s just that our curriculum is slightly different. We have different areas of learning within each course, and some that cross over all courses, so that it makes it easier to not have to focus solely on content. Of course, there are plenty who want to focus solely on content and do.

Comment on Why do the very best teachers ignore/subvert curriculum? by Miss Teacha

Miss Teacha — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 14:27:24 +0000

Well said! Sometimes, I find the best learning/interest takes place outside of the curriculum. History textbooks are BORING and the kids don’t like them . . .what they like is learning stuff outside of the curriculum. Thank for remind me to subvert the curriculum from time to time (although, the American education system is very much curriculum driven)
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