Teacher spends two days as a student and is shocked at what she learns
What could our Ridgewood schools learn from this post and this process? We need more transparency in our schools as to methods and best practices. How are we engaging our kids’ brains? We must demand more from the unions, teachers and the administration.(Reader)
Do teachers really know what students go through? To find out, one teacher followed two students for two days and was amazed at what she found. Her report is in following post, which appeared on the blog of Grant Wiggins, the co-author of “Understanding by Design” and the author of “Educative Assessment” and numerous articles on education. A high school teacher for 14 years, he is now the president of Authentic Education, in Hopewell, New Jersey, which provides professional development and other services to schools aimed at improving student learning. You can read more about him and his work at the AE site.
Wiggins initially posted the piece without revealing the author. But the post became popular on his blog and he decided to write a followup piecerevealing that the author was his daughter, Alexis Wiggins, a 15-year teaching veteran now working in a private American International School overseas. Wiggins noted in his follow-up that his daughter’s experiences mirrored his own and aligned well with the the responses on surveys that his organization gives to students.
by Alexis Wiggins
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2014/10/24/teacher-spends-two-days-as-a-student-and-is-shocked-at-what-she-learned/?tid=pm_pop
Transparency in the schools? What do you want to know?
Sounds like another person who thinks that teaching is easy and they could do it better – except that they have not gone through the certification process.
I could probably do your job too. Let’s all trade.
Teaching is easy
Teachers think it is hard since they have never done a real hard job
Authentic….assessment? These people need to stop recycling and start coming up with new meaningless words.
Did the teacher get the use of a BMW just like the spoiled brats?