May 11, 2015

Rhythms of Life

Nathaniel Hardt shares something revolutionary below when he suggests that there may be a way to plan our instruction/curricula that actually reflects how time and people interface in an academic year in school buildings, because there are different time periods that are shared in the collective unconscious of each group of people in each building […]

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Stop Instructing Your Students Now!

Now. OK tomorrow. I am being cereal about this. Don’t instruct them. Be with them. Talk to them. When you think you are teaching them, then they perceive that they are being taught, and a cycle of “I’m-the-teacher-and-I’m-the-smartest-and-if-you-listen-to-me-then-you-learn-the-language” kicks in, complete with testing and the whole pathetic school thing. It is impossible to teach a

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