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2 thoughts on “New Workshop Format”
I especially love point 5! I am doing this in practice, although it is cloaked within the current (misinformed) system. I just let kids do at their own pace. If they attend and show what they understand, then I do not make them “get to a certain place by a certain time.”
I sound like a broken record because I tell them this ALL the time: “…nobody has external control over how much you acquire. It’s too complicated. Just show me what you understand. It may be a little or a lot. I need this info so I can adapt what I do so that everyone understands.”
Just doing what I can within the system. So far so good. But as always, there is a “new initiative” upon us, that will require me to skate a bit around and around to evade the “new and improved” focus on projects and such. I’m ready to step up and have my students teach the adults a bit about SLA. I think if they hear it from them maybe they will listen.
Jen said:
……nobody has external control over how much you acquire. It’s too complicated. Just show me what you understand. It may be a little or a lot….
That is sheer brilliance. It’s what we need now. But I doubt if it gets any attention in school buildings, as per what you said in your third paragraph above. Dang it.