Carrie’s TEBlog

Rob brings up some interesting things in his response to the Labaree article. He notices why a goal of education would be Democratic Equality. All schools are different and get different benefits. Along with that not every teacher is the same. This is why I had said to some extent education should be unified. I [...]

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I agree with Amy that critical pedagogy and thinking are quite similar. I do believe that one cannot exist without the other. I think that a lot of critical pedagogy depends on the basis of critical thinking. Critical pedagogy is about taking critical thinking’s drive to find evidence and reasoning to explain the world and [...]

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Christopher had a great response to the Ornstein article; however, I have a slightly different opinion then he does on one of the topics. I do not believe there is one correct answer to every question. It is to cut and dry for me. I think that is why the world is constantly changing and [...]

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RJ I think brings up a great point in his response to McNeil. She writes all negative points about teaching. Yes her points are valid, as RJ points out, yet I think her story is very one sided as well. The issue here is you can always take research and make it look the way [...]

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            I totally agree with Lisa that TV can be a useful tool. It is obviously a great tool for exposing children to English and all its forms. Along with that it is one of the main tools for exposing the culture of America. Whether or not people think this is good, I think it [...]

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            I think Debbie has a great point when she is talking about holding students accountable. Even though many of the steps of being a good teacher seem tedious, they really help with overall learning and classroom management. Students need to learn how to be organized and do things on their own. They will never [...]

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I can see where Jessica is coming from in her response to Brophy, yet I think he is making a valid point. He is not saying to use name calling, I do not think, it is more of showing the brutal truth of the matter. Apathetic students need a major wake up call from reality, [...]

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            In response to Grewer’s response on the Brophy article, I agree with him about treating a student’s fears seriously. I found it interesting that he realized this is the real world so there is such thing as failure. The issue sometimes I think is teachers try to set up their students in a perfect [...]

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In response to Katie’s response for the motivation article I totally agree with motivation being a self-fulfilling prophecy. I think she makes a really good point about measuring performance on current ability. True grades matter from the past, yet current ability is the most important. If a person can learn and improve their skills then [...]

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            I agree with RJ that the requirements will help improve education for students who would generally just take “cake” classes. However he makes a point by saying that the drop out rate would be increased. This could be a bad thing or a good thing. I think that it would weave out the slackers [...]

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