- Which is preferable: practitioners devoted to the reciprocal relationship between instruction and learning? (or selective testing, outside-designed schedules and curriculum prescriptions?)
- Which is preferable: principals devoted to the principles of pedagogy? (or outward appearances, schedules, prescriptions, selective test results assembled to reassure outsiders that the insiders know what they are doing? )
- What would press professionally prepared, devoted practitioners to divert pedagogical expertise from steadfast focus on their learners' actual needs? Why? How did this happen?
- Who can give one solid reason why teachers should put government micromanaging intrusion over the individual and concrete learning needs of EACH different learner population. Each learning profile requires every bit of our EXPERT focus and attention, unencumbered by those who think they know from the outside the professional field. (Government is not an expert in education. It's hard to argue that government isan expert in anything. Government SERVES needs of the PEOPLE. It should not DICTATE PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE TO PROFESSIONAL FIELDS. Government is an institution with its own agenda: thus it creates bureaucracy.)
- These above are the big question we need to begin with! Unpacking these questions leads everyone willing to dialogue(not debate) to sources of the real problems AND appropriate solutions within our public education system.
Our life of work is the unknown sea for most of us. Work becomes for our selfhood like a force of nature...as rivers are to the water's edge. Over time a Grand Canyon took form! Crossing this sea is no easy, nor inconsequential, experience. As meaning-making creatures, we can make our work a precious journey. Set sail with us now!
What work do you engage daily?
Friday, April 1, 2011
For All Who Vision the best in the field of public education
Just three brief questions:
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