Sunday, March 4, 2007
CONSTRUCTING GOOD, TELLING BAD.
THE SEVEN COMMANDMENTS
1. Whoever tells their truths to small children is the enemy.
2. Whoever lets small children construct their own truths is a friend.
3. No teacher shall use a red pen.
4. No teacher shall write on a blackboard.
5. No teacher shall give out gold stars.
6. No teacher shall deconstruct the narrative of any other teacher.
7. All teachers are equal.
revised 3/05/07
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8 comments:
yikes!
your post is in italics!
do you want italics?
I love your post!
You need to write Animal Farm for constructivists.
Very funny, Becky! That's a keeper.
It really is brilliant.
I'm going to have to make up a "keeper" category.
A "keeper" category would engender competition which brings up another commandment in the educationist canon:
"All students are equal, but some students are more equal than others."
Thus, only sport events in which everyone wins are allowed. No spelling bees, no mandatory science fair participation. (This last one is absolutely true).
Oh, everybody at our school gets a ribbon for their excellent science fair project. EVERYBODY.
No spelling bees, though.
But the multiculturalists are cool with geography bees, so we have geography bees in which there are winners and losers. We incent that.
I mean, we provide learning environments in which learners are motivated to construct geographical meanings.
hey!!
what happened to Snowball and Squealer!!!???
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