Comments on: Hooked on instruction http://blog.genyes.org/index.php/2007/04/29/hooked-on-instruction/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hooked-on-instruction Thoughts About Empowering Students with Technology Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:39:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Miguel Guhlin http://blog.genyes.org/index.php/2007/04/29/hooked-on-instruction/comment-page-1/#comment-525 Miguel Guhlin Wed, 02 May 2007 21:17:52 +0000 http://blog.genyes.com/index.php/2007/04/29/hooked-on-instruction/#comment-525 Classroom 1 is a class that I learned to teach in when conducting writing workshops with my fifth graders. Those writing/reading workshops a la Nanci Atwell and Lucy Calkins disappeared as the emphasis for accountability--high stakes testing--drove creativity out of schools. Now, you find district teacher specialists with these wonderful books on how to teach writing/reading that are engaging, that we KNOW works, but because everything must be scripted, forced into grades from single measures, they are forgotten. Teachers have learned to do things the nonsensical way, even when the sensible way is more engaging and entertaining. Should i go back to the classroom, I will do it my way and to heck with Classroom #2...and probably end up being fired. Take care, Miguel Guhlin Around the Corner-MGuhlin.net http://mguhlin.net Classroom 1 is a class that I learned to teach in when conducting writing workshops with my fifth graders. Those writing/reading workshops a la Nanci Atwell and Lucy Calkins disappeared as the emphasis for accountability–high stakes testing–drove creativity out of schools.

Now, you find district teacher specialists with these wonderful books on how to teach writing/reading that are engaging, that we KNOW works, but because everything must be scripted, forced into grades from single measures, they are forgotten. Teachers have learned to do things the nonsensical way, even when the sensible way is more engaging and entertaining.

Should i go back to the classroom, I will do it my way and to heck with Classroom #2…and probably end up being fired.

Take care,
Miguel Guhlin
Around the Corner-MGuhlin.net
http://mguhlin.net

]]> By: pete reilly http://blog.genyes.org/index.php/2007/04/29/hooked-on-instruction/comment-page-1/#comment-432 pete reilly Mon, 30 Apr 2007 13:41:33 +0000 http://blog.genyes.com/index.php/2007/04/29/hooked-on-instruction/#comment-432 I was so effective at the traditional approach to teaching, that I still find it difficult to "let go" and be present...to deal with the uncomfortable feeling that happens when learning takes a turn I didn't predict or for which I didn't plan. It's at this point that I feel fear rise in me and I wonder "will I be able to react quick enough, will I have the words, and the right actions to help, or will I be left standing there, lost, without answers, without questions...exposed." pete I was so effective at the traditional approach to teaching, that I still find it difficult to “let go” and be present…to deal with the uncomfortable feeling that happens when learning takes a turn I didn’t predict or for which I didn’t plan. It’s at this point that I feel fear rise in me and I wonder “will I be able to react quick enough, will I have the words, and the right actions to help, or will I be left standing there, lost, without answers, without questions…exposed.”

pete

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