Lighting a Fire or Filling a Pail?
Carol Corbett Burris posted a critique of the Relay Graduate School of Education here. Robert Pondiscioquestioned Burris’ metaphor about “lighting a fire” rather than “filling a pail,” on the assumption that she does not care about the content of the curriculum.
My view: Curriculum matters; resources matter; poverty matters; and teachers should be free to use the teaching style that works best for them. And I still doubt the validity of a “graduate school of education” that has no scholars on its faculty and no curriculum other than data analysis and classroom management.
Burris responds here to Pondiscio, followed by Pondiscio’s response to Burris:
My view: Curriculum matters; resources matter; poverty matters; and teachers should be free to use the teaching style that works best for them. And I still doubt the validity of a “graduate school of education” that has no scholars on its faculty and no curriculum other than data analysis and classroom management.
Burris responds here to Pondiscio, followed by Pondiscio’s response to Burris:
| If Robert is a believer in enriched and challenging curriculum, he will find a great friend in me. This year every 11th grader in my school with the exception of the severely disabled who need life skills training, took IB |