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Report From The Field – Chris Roberts
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7 thoughts on “Report From The Field – Chris Roberts”
It kind of has. And now with that San Diego conference planned, I don’t think I want to do both.
New people need to send in bios. I just deleted a total of 47 people and am still working on more.
Thanks for posting that, Chris. It was so much fun to meet Chris and Jeff. It was like we are part of the Ben Slavic PLC family. We shared a lot of what we have learned here. I talked about the dictee and Jeff talked about the jobs, among other things. Chris did a great job of getting coached in front of all the other teachers . . . I would never have been brave enough!
Ben, do you need me to resend my bio?
Pls. do.
Yes, Thank you Chris! It was so nice to meet you and Tamala. It was great to see so many people devoted to the same cause. Chris did an awesome job circling with one of our participants. I was really impressed.
I was also glad to get the validation that I needed. It is so difficult to be a lone man teaching this way. I am the only one in my district and I am the only Latin teacher in the city, maybe even the state doing it this way.
Thanks to everyone here. I really enjoyed Saturday although I spent four hours driving up, four hours at the session and four hours back. I would do it again.
Jeff
Funny Chris should include that link. Just today, I mentioned something to a colleague about a curriculum guide from a different district we were told to consider. In every unit, the most students were expected to be able to do with the language seemed to be memorize. We agreed we should just tweak our own. I told the colleague that I felt that memorization was so low on Bloom’s that it upset me to think we’d consider adopting it as our own. She nodded and then said, “…But memorization does play a role in acquisition. It’s important.” (I’m paraphrasing slightly.) my response was that memorization and acquisition are two separate things. What else would you have said? I felt awkward.
Her goal was and is to keep you feeling awkward as long as she can. That’s just the way she rolls. But memorization is the opposite of higher order thinking, which takes place up the taxonomy while the real work is done without the brain even realizing it is acquiring, in the deeper mind. So however she frames it (“memorization does play a role in acquisition”) she will be wrong. Memorization plays no role in acquisition, bc it is a cerebral activity done by the conscious mind, whereas true and real acquisition takes place in the unconsious mind as a result of rigorous focus on meaning in class via context. She loses. But, if she made you feel awkward, I guess she won something. Bless her heart.