Parents: Model Good Practice J
If you’ve made it this far in the blog I know that one of two things is true. Either you are deeply interested and invested in the idea of blogging and your child’s education, or you have a lot of time on your hands! Either way I am thrilled to have your attention. As I mentioned in my welcome page, I am a life-long learner. I share Socrates’ belief that those who continually question the world around them will achieve the highest levels of self-awareness. I imagine that many of you share this belief as well as the understanding that by having a dialogue about our ideas we can better understand each other and ourselves. To that end I again encourage you to post to this blog. Share with other parents and teachers the thoughts, concerns, and questions that you have. As your child ventures into blogging, model this meta-cognitive process for him/her. I look forward to blogging with you.
John Priest
4 comments:
I like this quote by Socrates. It is one of those quotes your students can think about for their blog.
Absolutely. Meta-cognition and self-reflection is given far too little press and time in the classroom. SO often there is that rush and push to move forward, faster instead of looking deeper more slowly.
Answers = dead ends
Questions keep you moving...
Cool blog, John!
Another way of slicing this Socratic quality is that it takes confidence to follow a trail of learning without any pretense to knowing the answer at the outset. Hard for children, who don't like to be wrong, and especially don't like to be wrong in front of other children and teachers. The blog as a tool for keeping the inquiry open past the quick stop points--that's smart.
Absolutely Inger. It is so difficult to convince children that exploration can be more important that getting that ONE answer. I think our guest speaker this Friday will be able to shed some light, and appreciation, on this Socratic method. Make sure to ask about him.....
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