New starts, editor installed, shouldn't be too tedious.
Week four of summer session 2013 and I feel mildly terrified, so terrified that, if I am not studying directly, i am worrying, that's terrified.
An attempt at a new career or perhaps a reinvention of an old pastime in child minding. A teacher and a trained on at that. I have taught but only for want of teachers while living in Bengal. I had no real grasp of the mechanical mechanisms involved, or should say, theoretical, at this stage, god knows.
Now, on to my first query and at this stage, a query to the self as this unit is external and there is some irony in that in some of the readings but that is another issue.
Ewing. R [2010] quotes Bandura [1982] in his book, Curriculum and assessment: A narrative approach.
"...all students are potentially able to achieve success and reach a particular performance standard. There is therefor no quota of achievement with a predetermined number of those who can be successful and, in principle, no need for competition."
I might have to read up on the historical nature of education in the west but my experience as a student in the classrooms of Australian primary and secondary schools leads me to believe that there was never "a predetermined number of those who can be successful.'
Anyway, I have a stack of reading and notes to draw on, you shall hear more of my unqualified sentiments.
I have attached what I thought was a moving link in relation to teaching and education.
