Beverlee, What makes me even more depressed is the *veteran* teachers who seem to fully buy in to what you call "education as it is today" because they know better.
Sad.... Renee On Jun 7, 2008, at 8:57 AM, Beverlee Paul wrote: > "If schools are to be places that encourage new teachers, causing them > to see teaching as an interesting and unique career, there have to be > intellectually and socially challenging environments in which teachers > read together, reflect on practice, develop curriculum with a local > situated quality, and become conscious about the development of a > learning community." > > Vito Perrone And, to make it all the more frustrating, > sad-to-the-bone to me is that our professional newbies are seeing > education as it is today and extrapolating that that's all it can (or > should) be. Dry, "efficient," droning. "Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it." ~ Mark Twain _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive.
