On making sense

Brandt, R.S. (1994) On making sense: a conversation with Magdalene Lampert. Educational Leadership, 51 (5), 26-30.
Another article to review for university, focusing on teaching for understanding again. Lampert suggests that understanding means ’sense-making’ (p26), but that once an idea makes sense to the individual, they should be able to communicate their understanding to a [...]

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Up front

Perkins, D. and Blythe, T. (1994) Putting understanding up front. Educational Leadership, 51 (5), 4-7.
The third article in the trilogy we’ve been recommended to read. I notice that they have all come from 1993 or 1994. Does this mean that Teaching for Understanding has not moved on in that time, or possibly that it’s now [...]

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Educating for understanding

Gardner, H. (1993)  Educating for understanding. The American School Board Journal, 180 (7), 20-24
We’ve been given some articles for guided reading by the course tutor. Tonight’s work is an article by multiple intelligence theorist, Howard Gardner, who starts with a decent definition of Teaching for Understanding as
having a sufficient grasp of concepts, principles, or [...]

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Midway

There are times when I’m on courses which focus on teaching when I find myself thrown by pedagogical concepts which “all teaching students” know about. The chief villains here are Piaget and Constructivists/Behaviourists. I thought one of these moments had come round again today, but our tutor explained the concepts in plain English and moved [...]

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In the well

Just discovered that my great-great-great grandfather died when he fell down a well and drowned.
Didn’t expect that – but then , don’t suppose he did either.

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Surrender!

To hell with it. I cannot keep up the blog / photos on a daily basis. It is taking over my life, and I need back it right now, especially when I need every spare second to work on the Inclusion assignment.
But it has brought me some insights.

I have very little time for me while [...]

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Lost in thought

New module, and it’s not what I expected. I had assumed that this would touch on multiple intelligences, learning styles etc, but it’s patently not.
The main theme so far has been about making learning visible: an interesting concept. We’ve been introduced to Harvard’s Project Zero, which niggled away in the back of my mind until [...]

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