responsibility
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Who is responsible for making sure students learn?
Over the next few days, I am going to try to respond to some of the questions I posed in yesterday’s post about assessment. You can read that post here. I don’t pretend to have all the answers to these questions but ruminating about them allows me to consider some possible solutions or points of view. I Read more
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The Rights of a Teacher (a partial list) and other thorny issues
Teachers have always worked in collaborative groups. Sometimes the makeup of these groups is self-selected and at other times it is not. Disclaimer #1: I always learn something when I work with other teachers. Disclaimer #2: I don’t always need to work with other teachers. I have the right to time and space to reflect on Read more
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Accountability vs. Responsibility
Disclaimer: The tentative conclusions found herein are not what I initially intended, hence tentative. As I wrote, my ruminations took me in an unexpected direction. I hope readers will add sense to what may be nonsense, after all. Whatever happened to the word “responsibility”, a respectable and honorable word Read more
Elisa Waingort 