This article from our PLC member Andrew Edwards is really a fine one. You are going to love reading this:
Ben,
Do you every feel as though, maybe as a kind of side effect like from a pharmaceutical, the way we teach causes students to feel more comfortable to express who they really are? Lowers their inhibitions a bit. Are we the ones who really get to see what’s behind the eyes? Like when a kid interrupts class to question the significance of a particular CI activity right in the middle while I am trying teach. Is that happening all over the building? As I wander through the halls of my school and I see the faces of my more seasoned colleagues, I say to myself, there is NO way a kid has the guts to stop that dude or lady in the middle of his or her math, English, science, etc. lesson and tell them they are doing it all wrong and they should do it this way because once somebody gave me a learning styles questionnaire when I was in middle school and now I am an expert in the way my brain functions. On the other hand, I bet there isn’t much laughter, let alone genuine human contact, going on in those classes either. Had to get that off my chest. Bring on the little doubters.
Andrew Edwards