Sunday, March 8, 2009
Unmet expectations
As educators we feel overwhelmed by the external pressure of the accountablility standards as well the internal pressure to prepare our students for the 21st century. In addition, we must face the brutal facts that many of our students come to us unprepared and unwilling to risk the fear of another failure. As a result, collaboration becomes an essential part of supporting each other in our search for ways to challenge students at all levels who have shut down or who are putting forth minimum effort. Teachers working in isolation gives little return for the time invested. How do we provide teachers with more time for collaboration without adding more to a plate that is already piled high?
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Teachers have to be self-motivated and seek each other out to help add the interdisciplinary components that lessons need to address multiple intelligences. Sometimes I think having lunch together would be more productive than another workshop or training.
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