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Thursday, April 24, 2014
Illinois Teacher of the Year
"Teachers are needed more than ever, but in a very different capacity. We are no longer providing answers. We're providing the questions and the tools to find the answers."Here's my question.
-- Josh Stumpenhorst, 2012 Illinois Teacher of the Year
Quoted by David Ginsburg in R.I.P. Sage on the Stage
Are parents going to get wind of this any time soon?
This winter my district issued a newsletter extolling the wonders of flipped classrooms and announcing, twice on one page, that the district is 'student-centered.'
So there it is, in black-and-white: flipped classrooms are 'student-centered,' and the retiring curriculum director, who is responsible for the existence of flipped classrooms in my district (& is returning to her position as principle of the 4-5 school) is 'child-centered.'
If I had to guess, I'd say no more than a third of parents here would choose progressive education over traditional, given the choice. The number who believe teachers should not be sages on stages would be even smaller. Unfortunately, the only people in town who know what "student-centered" means--apart from school personnel--are Ed and me. Pretty much.
Will there come a point where parents know what the words their administrators use actually mean?
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