The STEM-Focused
The Arts-Focused
The Traditional
The Progressive
The Interdisciplinary
The Public
The Private
The Charter
Lover of math. Bad at drawing.
The STEM-Focused
The Arts-Focused
The Traditional
The Progressive
The Interdisciplinary
The Public
The Private
The Charter
Flexability in teaching methods is a must.
And yet, despite the vast number of educational theories, there are still good schools with good teachers in them. P.S. 363 in New York City (aka The Neighborhood School is an amazing place: my daughter (who’s 26) went there, and my grandson (5) is going there now.
Oh my Christ this was beautiful haha. Passing along.
Reblogged this on josephdung.
I think you hit all the major models we are inundated as we move to CCSS, this seems to be a very relative topic. Great fun in this post.
themathmaster: Agreed. Education ideology is great, but it always takes flexibility to accommodate the realities of any given community.
John: I’ll check out the neighborhood school. I was lucky enough to go to some great schools, particularly my public elementary school and my private high school. I find that intelligent leadership and skilled, thoughtful teachers can make almost any school model work – just as aimless leadership and poor teaching can doom almost any school, no matter what the model.
themodernidiot: Thanks!
MIAH: I think you’re right about CCSS. It seems like educational reform has often focused on “school models,” but I wonder if the fixation is particularly intense now.
A few years before you came along to teach in Oakland, the charter school had a principal who drove fear deep into every student and teacher’s heart. Even the history teacher who was in the military as a sergeant was afraid of him. He stood in front of the entrance every morning with a cup of hot coffee with a sharp eye. It was believed he sweetened his coffee with a mixture of teacher sweat and student tears.