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Re: just need to get my thoughts on paper...
Posted by CRAP on 10/22/09

    On 10/22/09, joe wrote:
    > I can agree with that sentiment to a point. I think that creativity
    > is valued in education, but being opinionated is sort of a no-no
    > nowadays.

    No, creativity isn't valued in education. Acronyms and powerpoint
    presentations are what are valued. Taking 4 hours of an in-service to say
    nothing is what's valued. Using buzz words is what's important, from an
    administrator's point of view. The kids... oh yeah, I think most
    administrators have forgotten they are still in the building.

    After all, what do kids know about CRAP? The new education initiative
    sweeping the nation! This initiative will save education. If you just
    teach CRAP... if you become a CRAP teacher... you will teach every
    student. Yes, students who are non-verbal with traumatic brain injury
    will score 36 on the ACT! All they need is CRAP! Tons of CRAP! CRAP is
    an innovative set of strategies designed to teach every learner! The CRAP
    subcommittee of the POOP building committee has designed this brilliant
    powerpoint. Now, let's look at slide 76.

    Does this CRAP sound familiar? Spending hours listening to administrators
    and their suck-ups talk about some acronym-ed strategy and despite all the
    time and hot air, they never taught one freaking strategy. If you're a
    teacher, it does. I think it's all crap!

    You need to know where to pick your battles. Level headed
    > people do well..it sounds like this fellow might have been a little
    > high strung.
    >
    > On 10/21/09, ElemESOL wrote:
    >> On 10/21/09, Incognito wrote:
    >>> I ran into all of that also...I'm not saying that it's all their
    >>> fault either, but boy, I ADMIRE people that can navigate the
    >>> teaching maze for sure. The ministry's got its problems too, but
    >> at
    >>> least for me I don't think it'll be anything like teaching school.
    >>>
    >>
    >> All a teacher has to do is keep their head down, teach the canned
    >> junk programs, do whatever the parents want, and don't dare have an
    >> opinion about anything and that teacher will be fine. It's the
    >> teachers with opinions, or who dare to be creative in the classroom
    >> that get in trouble.

     
     

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