Comments on: Ground Rush Kicking In

By: Sarah Puglisi

Sarah Puglisi — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 15:22:22 +0000

Oh Doug I just saw this….thanks.

i have a long post or two brewing.
When will I get shorter…

Lots of things finally going on in my head.
I’m done with summer school TODAY.

Right now writing up all we did.

Kind of afraid to give a copy of my blog!
Sarah

By: Marco Polo

Marco Polo — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 06:53:40 +0000

Great story! Skydiving for school credit, wow! Wish I could have done that. Turning the main point of your entry, about planning for classes, I was reminded of the following:
1) “Plan the class AFTER the class” (Caleb Gattegno, inventor of The Silent Way of language teaching)

2) An anti-objectives anti-objectives point of view from educationalist heterodox, James Atherton (slightly less subjectively here here; but see also here for a more thorough treatment of the subject.)

3) And this blog entry (Atherton again, sorry!): I got a course outline (two sides of A4) which specified a “syllabus” with “aims” and “content” but no “objectives”…. He had a white-board, on which he wrote basic propositions, about three times. There were no handouts. There were no transparencies. There was no PowerPoint. It was brilliant.
(Admittedly, he’s writing about teaching teaching adults, not children).

By: Jenny

Jenny — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 01:37:39 +0000

I love the term “ground rush”. We started back this week and this kids start on Monday (we’re on a modified calendar) and I’ve been feeling that way. Thanks for giving me such a great way to describe it.
Also, I’ll be looking forward to hearing more about your experiences with the science program. I’ll be doing something similar and can’t wait to learn more. Science is probably my weakest area.