tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7204430968023166999.post7608536206425546000..comments2024-03-26T05:18:01.915-04:00Comments on Portable Teacher: Shifts in SchoolLee Ann Spillanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04650009312001849617noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7204430968023166999.post-76367964418011960982018-10-18T09:02:06.403-04:002018-10-18T09:02:06.403-04:00That's a really important about how we need wa...That's a really important about how we need ways to capture our students' learning so that we prioritize and privilege more than content knowledge. If we truly have these broad and ambitious learning goals--as we should--we need to think about assessment in broad and ambitious ways too, which I think we have almost entirely failed to do in education. And if we think about what's important, then I find that almost nothing we teach students in American public schools makes the cut. It's such a huge and interesting problem.Elisabeth Ellingtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00747914394861199796noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7204430968023166999.post-44886844533873502722018-10-17T00:43:41.548-04:002018-10-17T00:43:41.548-04:00I am struck by how my thinking this week seems to ...I am struck by how my thinking this week seems to parallel yours. You write, "Really, sit silently with these shifts for a moment. They are huge. They are complex. What will it take? How will we get there? We've not yet created the systems or tools that would make such a leap forward entirely possible yet." And I am shaking my head and murmuring YES! (Can you hear me?) <br /><br />Knowing about simile and metaphor as information-to-be-remembered doesn't matter a whit. What matters is how understanding metaphor helps me act on my world. On the most personal level, it helps me explain myself to you. In Vander Ark's construct, being able to use metaphor to share an idea I have or who and what I am increases my sense of agency in the world. We don't teach metaphor, or other disciplinary content, that way. <br /><br />Yet. <br /><br />Karenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13736432060469980948noreply@blogger.com