Yeah, yeah, yeah, you’ve heard it before, especially from teachers. It’s all a bout change, change the way we structure schools, change the way we teach, change the way we ask out students to learn. Yet, I am not seeing a whole lot of change. I still walk down the hallway in my school and see rows of students, preparing for the next test, listening to teachers say things that they probably said twenty years ago. Are students learning? I think they are, but not at the level they should be. I think teachers first are role models. And the very first thing that we must be modeling is learning. And if learning isn’t change, then I don’t know what change means.
Many have gotten kind of comfortable in schools. Many resist any program, duty, or event that lives outside of the pre-existing notions of one’s worldview. Teacher and student arrive each day to dance a strange little dance, a marathon in which only a few will be standing at the end of this contest. Those will be the ones who will be “successful.” Those are the one’s that we teachers will point to as evidence of our own “success.”
Change. It might be nice to think about what that means, today.
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1 comment:
"And if learning isn’t change, then I don’t know what change means."
I've been reading and rereading your post this week, waiting for tempo to slow enough to give a proper response.
As a fellow teacher and learner, I appreciate your thoughts. I have written on my white board at school: Are you here to learn?
I'll have to add:
Are you here to change?
A thought provoking post. Thanks.
Don
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