Posted on April 29th, 2008 by AG
Let’s use Starbucks as a metaphor for issues that plague schools:
Last month Starbucks announced a major effort to ‘improve’ (reform) the company, part of which, was to ‘improve’ customer service. So all Starbucks stores closed down for a few hours one day to ‘train’ their employees in Starbuck’s newfound methods.
The result: The [...]
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Posted on April 27th, 2008 by atg
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Posted on April 27th, 2008 by atg
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Posted on April 27th, 2008 by atg
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Posted on April 27th, 2008 by AG
Here are some excellent book choices for music lovers of different types:
Jazz Aficionado
Gollub, Matthew. The Jazz Fly. Tortuga Press: Santa Rosa, California. 2000.
A fly that plays jazz? Yes, it’s true. The words are written with jazz rhythms in mind and the author incorporates an improvisational style into the text. The [...]
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Posted on April 26th, 2008 by atg
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Posted on April 26th, 2008 by AG
I had to laugh. We’re on vacation and we go out to dinner with Mom and Dad’s two friends. They happen to be teachers. We get talking. We share schedules, ideas, etc.. When we talk about the start of the school year they ask how many professional days I must attend. [...]
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Posted on April 26th, 2008 by AG
The except below is from Don Tapscott at Business Week:
The current model of educational pedagogy hasn’t changed for centuries. Based on the lecture, it is one-way, one-size-fits-all, teacher-focused and isolated. The student is a recipient, not a creator of knowledge. For a new generation of young people who have grown up interacting online rather than [...]
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Posted on April 26th, 2008 by AG
Everyone expects students to learn in school. Learning is the ‘job’ of students just as teaching is the job of teachers. Students may, of course, come unwilling to the great Table of Learning. Sometimes they have valid reasons for their hesitancy. To wit:
Loose statistics on teacher’s actual practice indicates that most (more [...]
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Posted on April 24th, 2008 by atg
