I believe that mathematics should be taught, not collaboratively explored; algebra and geometry are better than a vague course of Integrated Math; spiraling doesn't work nearly as well as learning it properly the first time; "I don't DO math" should be an incentive rather than an excuse. "I don't DO English" should be treated the same way.
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Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Educationese
I read this on another blog's comments: "My school had meetings this week to brainstorm ideas for ways to incentivize our sophomores to care about the CAHSEE."
Um, maybe they could start by eliminating words like "incentivize"?
I think maybe "motivate" was the word they were looking for. Could meetings like this be done away with entirely if administrators were each given a thesaurus?
We professionally-developed this week. Oops, can't make that a verb. A verb implies action.......
ReplyDeleteI think maybe "motivate" was the word they were looking for. Could meetings like this be done away with entirely if administrators were each given a thesaurus?
ReplyDeleteNo, Silly.
ReplyDeleteThey'd just come up with a new set of educationese.