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 Summer 2008
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Articles
Write On--Success
Launa Ellison
This summer, write. Writing will increase your success. Writing is the vehicle that clarifies thinking. Erica Jong explains, “How can I know what I think unless I see what I write?” What do you think about yourself and the life you have created? What do you think about your classroom challenges? What do you think about the students you teach? “Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious,” Anne Lamott states.
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Some Questions about Traditional Schooling
Wayne Jennings
We hear constantly about achieving rigorous academic standards. Everyone nods. Let's have some discussion about that.
How about a Martha Graham or Baryshnikov? Do their extraordinary achievements in dance have the same value structure as rigorous academic standards? Would these not graduate with their extraordinary talents if their writing skills or history knowledge were weak?
Do we not also value social knowledge and skills, leadership knowledge and skills and all the other human traits necessary in a complex adult world?
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Indelible Learning
by Wayne Jennings and Gary Phillips
Three succinct principles of permanent or indelible learning are:
1. The learning is meaningful to the student.
2. The student experiences strong emotions about the learning.
3. The student applies the learning within twenty-four hours.
Without these three, teaching amounts, in effect, to a light dusting on the brain's surface that quickly blows away without settling in for deep impact.
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