>At 18.00 28/10/97 -0800, you wrote:
>>Teacher's mantra: "once you close the door to that classroom, you
>>can do whatever you want."...
>>That's why teachers work alone....
>>Teaching is impossible: doing the
>>impossible in any public forum, or with another teacher, is, in a word:
>>terrifying.
>>
>>diane ("Just wait 'til you're a teacher: once that door is closed, you can do
>>whatever you want..." ah. It echoes still.)
>>
>Dear Diane I know the story about the fact that a teacher once in the
>classroom can close the door and do whatever. In my country may be this the
>true problem.
...
What I can say is following: the only moment in
>which I felt well supported in my teaching was when we had both in the
>schools and at the university the experience of a joint teaching with some
>colleague.For exemple teaching Italian literature and physics in the high
>school or psychology and physics in the first years of the medical faculty.
...
>Serena Veggetti>
I find it useful to hold suspect any aspect of a culturally established
practice which is attributed to "it's just the way people are." All to
often in education we limit ourselves in this way. Does it really require
a more knowledgeable person to assist for someone to figure out something
new or different about their world? If that was the case then how have we
'come this far?' Can only special people people do this without a more
knowledgeable partner? How do we know if we haven't really given it a try?
Dewey
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