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Re: Petition to stop Fuzzy Math in Prince William County, VA
Posted:
Feb 7, 2008 8:57 PM
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Please, Paul. That principle is not peculiar to lessons involving
direct instruction and it is disingenuous or very naive to suggest
otherwise.
On Feb 7, 2008, at 8:45 PM, Paul A. Tanner III wrote:
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> - --- Michael Paul Goldenberg <mikegold@umich.edu> wrote:
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>> What in the list below precludes lecture?
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>> And, as Richard pointed out, that's a list Paul, not Richard, linked
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>> to.
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> But it's interesting that Number 3, the one about active learning, was
> included but principles like the following principle were not:
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> (8) "Presentation of information is clear and well organized."
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> (Would it not be nice to see all teachers abide by this Principle (8),
> a principle of good "direct instruction"? So how come such as it were
> not included? Dare one say, "Agenda? Bias? Discrimination?" One just
> can't help but wonder. If one were to try to argue that such general
> principles of good pedagogy such as (8) that cover all content areas
> need not be included since they are common sense, I'd say that by what
> the authors themselves wrote, one could say the same about that Number
> 3. Here is a quote from the article: "These principles seem like good
> common sense, and they are -- . . .")
>
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