Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Week 4 Change Continues
Thinking about my participation in a change for the table was a good exercise. It's not often that I look back over things to evaluate why they did or did not work. It seems like change is the inevitable in education and you just need to hold on and ride it out. Sometimes it's for the better and the benefits are obvious. Other times it's not so obvious. Often I've found myself wondering if it isn't merely change for change sake. As an educator we typically don't have the opportunity to evaluate in such a formal manner, but it would be valuable to do that more often. It definitely would make it easier to determine the reasons why something was a success, near success or out right failure.
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I am guilty of the reflection piece too. I don't often look back and evaluate change. The change for change sake is something that happens a little too frequently, which is frustrating. When you are changing because it's a fad and not the best educational practice, you can loose the faith of your group. The reflection part is important to guage success, but something needs to be done with it then too. Modifications need to be made, something I'm sure you do daily with your students. I guess it gives us something to think about.
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