Greetings,

How did we go from lecturing our students and forcing them
to take notes to storytelling?

By the way, I am a huge fan of storytelling in the
classroom. I think active listening is a skill students
should be practicing every day, unlike note-taking.

If your principal asked how you were going to begin your
lesson today and you told her with storytelling, and then
lectured the students and made them take notes on it, I
think she would note the discrepancy in your evaluation.

Maybe it's semantics, perhaps storytelling is a cute
euphemism for lecturing, I guess it really doesn't matter
since we could go in circles for days on this one.

If it matters, I wasn't implying that your beliefs are
archaic, I was just trying to make an analogy with the help
of some exaggeration.

Obviously, I don't know you and haven't seen you teach, so
it would be idiotic for me to pass judgment. I hope you
believe me when I say that I simply enjoy discussing
classroom topics when school is out. As I tried to clarify
before, I learn a lot here and never approach discussions
with the notion that my way is the right way, just the wiser
way. :)

Enjoy the 4th!!!

---michael

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