tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574469779496191524.post9025938132232733054..comments2023-11-11T22:23:28.499-07:00Comments on KARE Givers: Define questions; discover answers...Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17898902767993372053noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574469779496191524.post-57449195504701877322010-12-15T23:15:31.505-07:002010-12-15T23:15:31.505-07:00Agreed.
I like meta-reflection, thinking about our...Agreed.<br />I like meta-reflection, thinking about our thinking, but it will never hurt to have someone asking the questions we may not ask ourselves, I think.<br />It's all about perspective to me, and exposing ourselves to what others see encourages us to reflect on what we see.Seanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17898902767993372053noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574469779496191524.post-21996416003269108492010-12-15T21:04:45.349-07:002010-12-15T21:04:45.349-07:00Ed,
I would also agree that good teaching is the ...Ed,<br /><br />I would also agree that good teaching is the art of questioning. Taking it one step further, though, I think that great teaching is awakening the art of self-questioning in the students. Then you won't be needed to ask the questions that create the sense of wonder. While asking questions is not simple, this has proved even more difficult for me.Mr. Tom Krawczewiczhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15598496599876743426noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574469779496191524.post-83773016741996943472010-08-08T11:52:28.059-06:002010-08-08T11:52:28.059-06:00Hi Joe,
Of course there are elements that should b...Hi Joe,<br />Of course there are elements that should be tossed from education, some very obvious- corporal punishment and racial segregartion being perfect historical example.<br /><br />What concerns me is the tendency for groupthink to take over teachers as it appears to routinely do, creating a fervor that prevents us from seeing the trees for the forest. Allegorically speaking, within every forest are some really good trees; we should never chop them all down. There is a tendency among educators to crave large scale, immediate change (aka revolution- a very dangerous word) when they should be considering more carefully incremental. intermediate change that allows for really focused and critical analysis of the real problem- the core problem, not the tertiary, emotional, polarized ones we jump on the bandwagon for all too often.<br /><br />I'll do more thinking and writing on elements I believe should be considered in this way. Ironically for me, I would start with segregated special education classes. This is an element that has seen its time come and go- we must rethink this one. <br /><br />More to come...Seanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17898902767993372053noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574469779496191524.post-68162211266144229432010-08-08T10:05:39.299-06:002010-08-08T10:05:39.299-06:00Sean, I agree that good teachers encourage student...Sean, I agree that good teachers encourage students to focus less on finding the right answers and more on asking good questions.<br /><br />And I agree that the problems we are encountering in education can not be solved by better, tougher standards. I like the idea of having standards and curriculum that are as vague as possible - and I think framing them as questions might help to do this.<br /><br />Rather than making the standards these definitive end points, or ceilings - we would make the standards the launching point as questions.<br /><br />In reference to your fear of throwing anything away, I would like to challenge you to think of things that we should throw away from education - can you really think of nothing that should be tossed aside?<br /><br />There are ways to throw out some of the bath water without tossing the baby. Parents do it all the time and so should teachers.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15047405950514440042noreply@blogger.com