Ambiguity (2008) |
With that in mind, here's a list of things it is best not to confuse:
- technician with teacher
- standardization with excellence
- testing with achievement
- manager with principal-teacher
- authority with leadership
- compliance with agreement
- method (any really) with innovation
- scripted instruction with teaching
- National Standards with individual standards
- professional development with professional learning
- pacing with depth
- assigning with occasioning
- measurement with outcome
- data with story
- technology with technique
- attending meetings with distributed leadership
- 'best' practices with experience
- test preparation with curriculum
- efficiency with excellence
- explicit content with ways of knowing
- mission statement with vision
- schooling with learning
- being busy with solving problems
- production with value
- control with self organization
- grading with response
- mandates with choice
- telling & directing with empathy
- content learning with disciplinary knowledge
- answering with agency
- student with learner
32. homework with rigor
ReplyDeleteI have a feeling, you'd be really good at "Buzzword Bingo" (a game I learned from John T. Spencer).
33. memorization with understanding
ReplyDelete34. silence with engagement
ReplyDeleteTeaching with learning
ReplyDelete35. Compliance with motivation or self-control
ReplyDelete36. Degrees with expertise
37. boredom with apathy
ReplyDelete38. tradition with appropriate
David, have never played buzzword bingo, but have been in education for 29 years. Must make me a expert.
ReplyDeleteMeghan, I couldn't agree more.
ReplyDeleteJill, I wish you might say more about silence being mistaken for engagement. Seems important. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteAnn that's the superordinate under which all else can be categorized.
ReplyDeleteLove those pairings, Steve. The first (Compliance w/ motivation or self control) reminds me of how silence is misunderstood and the mistake to not acknowledge the force power has. The second can certainly be true. Also would like to suggest that expertise isn't a static matter.
ReplyDeletePatrick, I think boredom is often understood as apathy and the second as well. The way we have always done it is a poor excuse/reason.
ReplyDeleteI'd like to add:
ReplyDeletetransparency with vulnerability
rigor with challenge
rewards with motivation
The first set, John stop me. Makes me think. Thanks.
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