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naturegirl321
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Location: home sweet home
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| Justin Trullinger wrote: |
And yet, haven't you ever come close to the edge? A little too close to the ragged edge of insanity? FLipped out a bit?
It happens.. |
Right, like last week, when my school asked me to change all 3000 of my grades in my register from numbers to letters. |
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Justin Trullinger
Joined: 28 Jan 2005
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Location: Seoul, South Korea and Myanmar for a bit
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| Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 11:06 pm Post subject: |
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| Makes sense to me. I think you should give everybody a "g". |
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naturegirl321
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| Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 11:11 pm Post subject: |
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| Justin Trullinger wrote: |
| Makes sense to me. I think you should give everybody a "g". |
Most of them end up with As anyways, so it makes the A mean nothing since a B is failing. An AD is higher than an A, but still, it's like giving them As is the only choice that you have. |
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sandyhoney2
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| spiral78 wrote: |
Dunno. I was 5-11 years old, mid /60's - early '70s. Washington, DC area. There were 20 kids in my class and 6 teachers. We had stations for math, reading, science, etc. with a teacher for each station, and total freedom to spend our time as we wished. No grades, but we were constantly tested for 'levels' in the core subjects, so our report cards read stuff like "reading at year 12 level." The school was considered in the top in the country at the time, and I think the project was successful overall, but there were some reactions against the perceived freedom of schools organized this way (public schools, funded by tax dollars - it wasn't a private school) and so far as I know this approach hasn't been used in public schools in the States for a long time now.
I think in Canada it was also in use, called something like 'open plan' learning. |
There are a few of these in Canada - I just passed one in Toronto yesterday, but the name escapes me now. It did have "open learning" in its name. My room-mate went to one of these schools and didn't have enough positive things to say about it. She said if she had been in a regular public school, she'd have dropped out by age 15. |
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spiral78
Joined: 05 Apr 2004
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Location: On a Short Leash
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It was fantastic, and I have to say I think it gives me some small advantages as a language teacher, in that I'm entirely comfortable with lots of student activity, interaction, and negotiation of class content and goals - all things that much of the current SLA lit say are useful in language learning.
Not that I have no control over a classroom - I think it's important to guide a class in terms of pacing and being available as a useful resource at all stages.
But there's some truth in the idea that our own earliest learning experiences shape our beliefs about how learning takes place, and I've never had to grapple with the 'open the book to p. whatever and repeat after me' syndrome that some good teachers work to shake off. |
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