SUBSCRIBE chat center Gazette|Chatboards|Lessons|Projects|Classifieds|Mailrings|Jobs|Harry Wong|Live!|Advertise SUBMIT POST ALL POSTS TOP POSTS Share | Print | Report Post High School Teachers Chatboard Search Teachers.Net Advanced Quick Links: Set Hot Now... • September 2008 Gazette • Teacher Tech Center • The Lesson Bank Most Popular • Set Your Quick Links • Chat Center • All Chatboards • Lesson Bank • Teacher Mailrings • Project Center • Classified Ads • Live Chat & Meetings Select by • State/Region • Grade Level • Curriculum • Interest Group • Teaching Method Special Topics • Technology • Languages • Hot Topics • Career Center • Distance Learning • Fundraising • Tutoring Center • Teacher's Bookshelf • Free Printables • Classroom Photos • Meeting Archive • Teaching Articles • Library • Web Tools • Webring • Search • Advertise   Re: Further on this interesting case / completely agree Posted by Sara on 5/17/08 But we are in the minority. The belief that students truly 'learn and retain' detailed subject matter is sacrosanct. If society did not believe that, their fundamental idea of school would crumble. As did mine. I completely agree- but it is not hypocrisy - it's rather a blind faith in an old definition of learning that is the root of the problem. As history teachers, we often have meetings where we again deal with the question of 'what is essential knowledge in history'. When I point out that no faculty member outside of the history department knows any of the knowledge we deem 'essential', there is general discomfort as if they caught a glimpse of the emperor and indeed he wasn't fully clothed. > >Graduation could certainly result from a demonstration of a command of basic skills and certainly time should be devoted to the instruction of those skills rather than the memorization of the height of every hill and the depth of every dale. Posts on this thread, including this one Administrators changing seniors grades!, 5/15/08, by BMoreTeacher. Re: Administrators changing seniors grades!, 5/15/08, by Rodeo. Re: A question. , 5/16/08, by L. Swilley . Re: Further on this interesting case , 5/16/08, by L. Swilley . Re: NCLB, 5/16/08, by LbP. Re: A question. , 5/16/08, by What????. Re: NCLB, 5/16/08, by Rodeo. Re: A question. , 5/17/08, by ACP. Re: Thanks, ACP, 5/17/08, by L. Swilley . Re: Administrators changing seniors grades!, 5/17/08, by Sara. Re: NCLB, 5/17/08, by to Rodeo. Re: Further on this interesting case / completely agree, 5/17/08, by Sara. Re: Thanks, ACP, 5/17/08, by ACP. Re: Further on this interesting case , 5/17/08, by I agree. Re: A question. , 5/17/08, by To ACP. Re: A question. , 5/17/08, by ACP. Re: Administrators changing seniors grades!, 5/17/08, by BMorePeachy. Re: Administrators changing seniors grades!, 5/17/08, by think of the workplace. Re: Administrators changing seniors grades!, 5/18/08, by high school English teacher. Re: This very interesting and very important thread, 5/18/08, by L. Swilley . Re: A question - tracking students early on , 5/18/08, by BTrack. Re: Administrators changing seniors grades!, 5/18/08, by history teacher. Re: This very interesting and very important thread, 5/18/08, by history teacher. Re: This very interesting and very important thread, 5/18/08, by BMoreTeacher . Re: Administrators changing seniors grades!, 5/18/08, by history teacher. Re: This very interesting and very important thread, 5/19/08, by Catsister.

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