Bev...
This is exactly what I was hoping for in some of my initial posts to the
listserv....I think there is great power in approaching our study of Ellin's
book to spend some time thinking about how we are understanding the ideas
presented...in our minds and in our lives. Ellin never claims to have a full
picture of what it means to understand...but she wants us to start exploring
our own intellects and then share what we find with each other and then with
our students.
In my own mind...through lesson study and my study of To Understand, I am
reading, reflecting, trying things out, talking with others, taking more quiet
time to reflect, enjoying the struggle immensely. This...so far...is the
beginning of my own exploration in what it means to understand.
It is deep thinking we are engaging in and oh so absorbing....off to class now!
Jennifer
Jennifer Palmer
Reading Specialist, National Board Certified Teacher
FLES- Lead the discovery, Live the learning, Love the adventure.
Reading furnishes the mind only with the materials of knowledge. It is thinking
that makes what we read ours. -John Locke
From: Beverlee Paul
Sent: Wed 4/9/2008 8:34 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Understand] Understand Digest, Lesson study
So now will we examine our understanding/thinking AS WE THINK -- just as we
thought in a parallel manner when we ourselves were visualizing, synthesizing,
etcetera in our own reading immediately after Mosaic? Will we then, through
the process, come to understand understanding? That's why To Understand, which
standing on the shoulders of Mosaic, is a quantum leap forward. I knew early
on when I read To Understand the first time that this was a book that I was
going to need to peel through layers and layers across multiple readings in
order to begin to comprehend.
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