Except in education.
Education "experts" use jargon to make simple things sound complicated, to change the inherent meaning of words and to appear (I guess) smarter than the speaker actually is. Education experts further abuse the English language by changing the meanings of simple words to either "be cute" or to obfuscate.
In what other field would a person who was speaking to a room full of professionals, requesting that thoughts and questions be "captured" (written down on sticky notes) and that the sticky notes be then attached to the "Parking Lot" at the back of the room (a large piece of paper decorated with an elementary school cartoon of a car and the words "Parking Lot" in large, multi-colored letters.
Teachers will never be taken seriously as professionals until we cease to find this clever, cute, or anything but demeaning and puerile.
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Yeah, but how else can my PE trained principal sound like he understands my issues of trying to teach Algebra 2 on a block to kids who cannot do simple addition or multiplication in their heads.
ReplyDeleteThrow some jargon at me and gee, he sounds like he understands. (not)