Comments on: HOW TO TEACH THE NEW TEACHERS? http://hybridvigor.org/2007/11/04/how-to-teach-the-new-teachers/ Improving decisions and outcomes through collaboration and deliberation Sun, 14 Feb 2010 23:08:49 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Denise Caruso http://hybridvigor.org/2007/11/04/how-to-teach-the-new-teachers/comment-page-1/#comment-7581 Denise Caruso Mon, 03 Dec 2007 19:26:25 +0000 http://hybridvigor.net/2007/11/04/how-to-teach-the-new-teachers/#comment-7581 I agree with you theoretically and even in practice, to a degree, but I think it's unrealistic to expect that all of the millions of teachers in the world are going to be able to live up to those ideals -- or even that they should. Training may not be able to create vibrancy, but it's bloody hard to create vibrancy when you're 23 and have to figure out how to teach a room full of rambunctious inner city kids to read. And in the meantime, we need teachers -- and we need to give teachers the classroom training they need so they don't bolt from the system. I think that's the first priority. Then we can start to refine the process a bit, perhaps along the lines you suggest. I agree with you theoretically and even in practice, to a degree, but I think it’s unrealistic to expect that all of the millions of teachers in the world are going to be able to live up to those ideals — or even that they should. Training may not be able to create vibrancy, but it’s bloody hard to create vibrancy when you’re 23 and have to figure out how to teach a room full of rambunctious inner city kids to read.

And in the meantime, we need teachers — and we need to give teachers the classroom training they need so they don’t bolt from the system. I think that’s the first priority. Then we can start to refine the process a bit, perhaps along the lines you suggest.

]]> By: Jeffrey Peyton http://hybridvigor.org/2007/11/04/how-to-teach-the-new-teachers/comment-page-1/#comment-6141 Jeffrey Peyton Mon, 05 Nov 2007 02:34:40 +0000 http://hybridvigor.net/2007/11/04/how-to-teach-the-new-teachers/#comment-6141 Denise, It's good to see Reach's focus on training, but even the best training may not go deep enough. Putting a great teacher standout into a school may serve to deepen resistance. Please visit my web site. Puppetools is my brainchild. There is a recent article in Edutopia, research which I presented to brain scientists in Denmark, and partners in Scandanavia. I believe that deep reform must carry the seeds of new stuff, while breaking down the old; that communication is the pathway for delivering the seeds; that teachers trained and empowered to use play as a foundational strategy become the change agents. Training by itself cannot create vibrancy; something on the order of play--immersive and transformative, transcendant, and evolutionary--is what kids understand innately. Even Plato advocated on behalf of play in Education. It's what is needed to tame the monster we've created. Please write me back if you'd like to explore this topic further. Thank you. Denise, It’s good to see Reach’s focus on training, but even the best training may not go deep enough. Putting a great teacher standout into a school may serve to deepen resistance. Please visit my web site. Puppetools is my brainchild. There is a recent article in Edutopia, research which I presented to brain scientists in Denmark, and partners in Scandanavia. I believe that deep reform must carry the seeds of new stuff, while breaking down the old; that communication is the pathway for delivering the seeds; that teachers trained and empowered to use play as a foundational strategy become the change agents. Training by itself cannot create vibrancy; something on the order of play–immersive and transformative, transcendant, and evolutionary–is what kids understand innately. Even Plato advocated on behalf of play in Education. It’s what is needed to tame the monster we’ve created.

Please write me back if you’d like to explore this topic further. Thank you.

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