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nnyWeird cognitive dissonance, today, of the bus smelling oddly like a car. There was something delightful in that, like I could mentally squeeze the space until the lady with all the shopping was giggling as she tried to fit onto the grizzled bus driver's lap, and the couple were squeezed up next to each other and hanging out of the window for a furtive cigarette, and the teen in back was trying desperately to keep up with the disaffection against a smile that was curling the side of his face. My imagination rails against school time, sometimes; I could pretend they were all people I'd want to talk to because I had my headphones on.
Got frustrated by teaching again, today. The key to teaching lower bands of ability is genuinely not to simplify ideas until they bear no relation to reality, okay? I promise you, it's really really not. Give it to them in bite-size chunks, and try to tease the ideas out of them - even sometimes to the point of making the next logical step for them, making it seem like a product of the discussion between themselves. Allow them the higher order thinking, allow them to philosophise, teach them that they are allowed to be critical thinkers; give them the tools, at least, because at least then they can learn to use them.
Please, please don't just tell them that Wikipedia cannot necessarily be trusted but non-fiction books are pretty much always right.
Sorry, sorry. I forgot we were perpetuating the hegemony. I forgot we weren't trying to get them to look for their own truth.
Got frustrated by teaching again, today. The key to teaching lower bands of ability is genuinely not to simplify ideas until they bear no relation to reality, okay? I promise you, it's really really not. Give it to them in bite-size chunks, and try to tease the ideas out of them - even sometimes to the point of making the next logical step for them, making it seem like a product of the discussion between themselves. Allow them the higher order thinking, allow them to philosophise, teach them that they are allowed to be critical thinkers; give them the tools, at least, because at least then they can learn to use them.
Please, please don't just tell them that Wikipedia cannot necessarily be trusted but non-fiction books are pretty much always right.
Sorry, sorry. I forgot we were perpetuating the hegemony. I forgot we weren't trying to get them to look for their own truth.
