tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15932919.post6286535154184261078..comments2024-03-26T07:07:14.304-07:00Comments on Teacher Tom: One Moment To The NextTeacher Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14606781724784785338noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15932919.post-38039827155628957222014-03-25T04:35:07.050-07:002014-03-25T04:35:07.050-07:00I'm studying to be a teacher (at Murdoch Unive...I'm studying to be a teacher (at Murdoch University in Perth , Western Australia) and I just want to let you know I'm using this post as part of an assignment I'm working on about Piaget and the way children assimilate new information. I've read your blog for some time now and really enjoy your writing- thank you :)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03824163550075002624noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15932919.post-15926927949547853622014-03-23T13:26:28.387-07:002014-03-23T13:26:28.387-07:00In fact an important 'teaching' technique ...In fact an important 'teaching' technique is to avoid stopping the children's learning from happening. This is a struggle - as John Holt said, the 'teacher demon' inside all us teachers desperately rears it's head and wants to be heard - and get credit.Maureennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15932919.post-20680277409695024802014-03-20T20:48:00.390-07:002014-03-20T20:48:00.390-07:00Tom didn't do much. That's the point. He...Tom didn't do much. That's the point. He wasn't teaching, he was making space for Zinn and Acadia and Cecelia to learn. Maybe he passed on a little language. But the real effort here, the work, was Zinn's. Zinn wasn't taught, Zinn was learning. Kids are not balls of clay being molded by the wills of the adults around them, they are ravenous black holes sucking up every drop of experience around them and growing through osmosis. I think it's disingenuous for us teachers to take the credit for a students learning. If a student really learned anything, they did it through their own effort. The best teachers, like Tom, are struggling right along side them, learning together.Sacred Humanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17672020441778253469noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15932919.post-53502389414955534622014-03-20T17:18:38.373-07:002014-03-20T17:18:38.373-07:00Brilliant!
What kind of sand is this? It looks da...Brilliant!<br /><br />What kind of sand is this? It looks dark and squishy, not really like traditional sand?Ms Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08265552352722496948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15932919.post-68775545696004315052014-03-19T13:24:48.097-07:002014-03-19T13:24:48.097-07:00Good to see that you saw the inherent "teacha...Good to see that you saw the inherent "teachable" moment evident within something as simple as making sand castles. Keep up the great work, Tom! Stephanie Schulerhttp://shorewooddaycarepreschool.com/noreply@blogger.com