Returning Joy to Teaching & Learning — from gettingsmart.com by Trace Pickering
Key Points
- Too many school-based reform efforts continue to have educators implicitly standing with the standards against the students.
- Pivot your perspective for a moment to the opposite.
- What does a school where its educators stand with the students against the standards look like?
From DSC:
My hunch is that we need to cut — or significantly weaken the ties — between the state legislative bodies out there and our public school systems. We shouldn’t let people who know little to nothing about teaching and learning make decisions about how and what to teach students. Let those on the front lines — ie., the teachers and local school system leaders/staff — collaborate with the community on those items.