Sketching a course 4
Stuff to expose students to Street-level bureaucracy/loosely-coupled systems Arguments over what the links between education and democracy are Habits etc. Grasping POV within nonfiction Experiences Staying with a the development of a complex idea through its nuances Multiple-resolution understanding: Seeing the flowers (details) and the landscape (10,000-foot view) at the same time
Think, then blog
I’m occasionally embarrassed when a typo appears in a blog entry, and I’m frequently learning from comments here, but I’m surprised at Mike Petrilli’s simplistic argument that “bad ideas flow from academia into our K-12 system … (… moral relativism, the decline of the core curriulum, dubious pedagogical approaches)” and that “one of public education’s […]