Archive for May, 2010
Danger of Passion
Posted on May 20, 2010. Filed under: art and creativity, classroom related, leadership related, thinking aloud |
I believe in education we need to recognize the need for passion and emotion in what we do, but we cannot allow our passion to undermine the need for evidence and reason. How can we build the skills to do both?
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )10 Ways Edu-folk Know How to Mess Up a Good Thing
Posted on May 15, 2010. Filed under: assessment, classroom related, leadership related, testing, thinking aloud |
Spreading means diluting, and that is usually what happens to quickly growing enterprises in education. How about we let them percolate and grow, instead of multiply and spread?
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Right Brain vs. Left?
Posted on May 1, 2010. Filed under: art and creativity, classroom related, right-brained, thinking aloud |
Is it just me? Or do folks in education tend to espouse extremes on edu-issues? I am thinking whole language versus phonics, arithmetic versus “new math,” and now standards&testing versus whole-child&inquiry. Once the end of these false continuums have been selected, they get bifurcated into our two political parties: Republican and Democratic (does that happen [...]
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