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| One of the dirtiest words in the pre-collegiate ed world is "lecturing", meaning any form of direct or expository instruction to impart knowledge. It doesn't matter how interactive the expository instruction is. The dominant P/C cult simply bans instruction beyond a few minutes. | ||||||||
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I learned this first-hand during my teacher certification experience (for the middle grades). During observation in various schools I was struck by this non-instruction. I wanted to know how much the teachers I observed knew about, say, science or history. I was never able to find out because of this non-instruction. Time was spent with hands-on activities. Then later, during my clinical experience, I was constantly reprimanded, both by the cooperating teacher and the university supervisor, for "lecturing" (an attempt to impart some knowledge and make connections mixed in with questionas and answers (what could be more active than Q&A?). The university supervisors are the gatekeepers who make sure no candidate who violates the anti-intellectual dictates of the regnant P/C cult gets certified. | |||||||
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I learned this first-hand during my teacher certification experience (for the middle grades). During observation in various schools I was struck by this non-instruction. I wanted to know how much the teachers I observed knew about, say, science or history. I was never able to find out because of this non-instruction. Time was spent with hands-on activities. Then later, during my clinical experience, I was constantly reprimanded, both by the cooperating teacher and the university supervisor, for "lecturing" (an attempt to impart some knowledge and make connections mixed in with questions and answers [what could be more active than Q&A?]). The university supervisors are the gatekeepers who make sure no candidate who violates the anti-intellectual dictates of the regnant P/C cult gets certified. | |||||||
| My experience during student teaching was the most horrifying of all. I was told outright by my CT that no direct instruction was allowed. Not even questions were allowed since supposedly they are part of direct instruction. The resources that came with a textbook could not be used because, I was told, the school is a "creative" school and using resources is not "teaching". Everthing had to be games and hands-on activities done from scratch. This was enormously wasteful. | ||||||||
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Revision r1.9 - 29 Aug 2005 - 17:20 - CarolynJohnston Revision r1.10 - 29 Aug 2005 - 17:27 - CharlesH |