Whatever happened to promoting student ownership & responsibility?
NOVEMBER 21, 2010
This past Friday, I heard from two teachers who’d experienced some form of professional rebuke for their stances on student responsibility. The first teacher received a lower score on his evaluation, while the second almost faced serious disciplinary action for writing and sending a (brave and thoughtful, IMO) e-mail. Despite their distance from each other (the first teacher works in Washington, DC, while the other teaches here in Colorado), both experienced the negative impact of an educational culture that places a disproportionate amount of responsibility on the teacher,