LOL
The parents here in my building complain that we are too serious and don't let
the kids have any fun! We're too "controlling and serious" as compared with the
school down the road which is better because it is "fun"---and lets kids be
kids!
Shall I ship a few of our families off to you , Joy?:-)
Hey...how about instead of engaged or fun...we say "joyous!"
Jennifer Palmer
Reading Specialist, National Board Certified Teacher
FLES- Lead the discovery, Live the learning, Love the adventure.
"Children grow into the intellectual life around them."
-Vygotsky
From: Joy
Sent: Thu 7/3/2008 2:55 PM
To: Special Chat List for To Understand: New Horizons in Reading Comprehension
Subject: Re: [Understand] how my thinking changed....
Yes, but sometimes parents cringe when we say fun ("I don't work hard to pay
taxes for my kid to be having so-called-fun"), and sometimes one kid lets loose
with wild abandon, forgetting all common sense and creating a hazardous
learning environment.
Joy/NC/4
How children learn is as important as what they learn: process and content go
hand in hand. http://www.responsiveclassroom.org
--- On Thu, 7/3/08, Palmer, Jennifer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
From: Palmer, Jennifer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [Understand] how my thinking changed....
To: "Special Chat List for "To Understand: New Horizons in Reading
Comprehension"" <[email protected]>
Date: Thursday, July 3, 2008, 2:50 PM
Perhaps what we need to do is redefine "fun!" This is some serious
thinking we do on this listserv but I also think it is fun to be a part of it!
"Engaged is good, but it has a technical feel to it, to me.
Jennifer Palmer
Reading Specialist, National Board Certified Teacher
FLES- Lead the discovery, Live the learning, Love the adventure.
"Children grow into the intellectual life around them."
-Vygotsky
From: Beverlee Paul
Sent: Thu 7/3/2008 2:34 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Understand] how my thinking changed....
I do love the word "satisfying" (from Lilian Katz) in place of
"fun" when describing engaged learning.
*********************************(I hate the word fun relating to education, it
seems to devalue what we are doing - perhaps engaging is a better word?)
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