Since I’ve done every other blog post, I’m going to write some of the leftover stuff I haven’t posted yet, or never got a chance to post.

The Peter Elbow drinking game – drink anytime he is referenced – we would all be dead by now

The great shift in education over the past thirty years has been from a one size fits all model to a model that views each student as an individual learner who may learn differently than anybody else. Modern lesson planning is all about trying to find different ways to teach the same thing in an attempt to reach more than the “average” student, who we now know is a myth.

Young Peter Elbow – just in case you wanted to see him

We need to be sensitive to all of our students, as the article for today mentions, repeating oft spoken words, we can’t see a disability. I would add that we can’t see whatever other miseries our students deal with, and we should always assume that they all have troubles in their lives, great or small, and treat them with the according sensitivity. I think this especially applies to those students that appear arrogant – they may be hiding something, or maybe they’re just awful people, but it’s important not to get caught up in their posturing.