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"[...]since my performance doesn’t define me, I don’t have to be the center of attention in my classroom. I can do experimental things, and fail. I can get ou
by keithpeter 14y ago
"[...]since my performance doesn’t define me, I don’t have to be the center of attention in my classroom. I can do experimental things, and fail. I can get out of the way of my students... I can open up the classroom for things like inquiry-based learning. I don’t have to be in control of everything. I don’t have to worry about what people will think of me."
Useful quote. This is a big issue in teaching. The increase in monitoring/criticism of the teacher's performance (at least in UK where I teach) leads to risk avoidance and increased conformity, at least in UK.
- ky3 14y ago... leads to risk avoidance and increased conformity, at least in UK. Isn't that the intention all along? Who stands to lose most were the boat rocked?
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- keithpeter 14y agoIn the UK, the intention is to raise standards (italicised as this is a phrase used by politicians in different ways on different days and to different audiences). However, the 'normalisation' process is having exactly the opposite effect! Our current government does like to show that the public sector has failed whenever they can. They have a small state/private enterprise agenda.