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Tio_Narratore said:
Congratulations! Never used those methods? Then it's very likely you are a very good teacher. I quickly realized when doing my M.Ed. that most methods were based on "theories" of learning developed by people who had no idea what learning actually was. And didn't do any real research to figure it out. If any of them had actually read the literature, they would have seen that their ideas were half-baked versions of theories they never read. One prof I had developed a method that he thought was entirely novel, but was just a rehash of the 1960s 'Programmed Learning Aids,' a method that the Masters of the University of Paris had indirectly refuted in 1304.
A good teacher doesn't use a 'method;' a good teacher stays honest and true to her/him self. The students - at any age - recognize the natural honesty of it and respond in kind.
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Agreed. I just try to do what my favorite teachers did and it seems to work really well most of the time. I don't even remember all the different acronyms, and I tune them out whenever they come up in professional development.

I had thought about going for an M. Ed., but COVID hit and that put a stop to my plans. Now, I just don't want to do it, at least not right now.
 
lil_jenni said:
Agreed. I just try to do what my favorite teachers did and it seems to work really well most of the time. I don't even remember all the different acronyms, and I tune them out whenever they come up in professional development.

I had thought about going for an M. Ed., but COVID hit and that put a stop to my plans. Now, I just don't want to do it, at least not right now.
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I only did it for the 10% salary increase it afforded me (and for the fun of arguing with profs who weren't familiar with the older lit in their own field. I had the same with some of my colleagues in Junior College, people who presumed that the latest "studies" were better than what went before. And in ten years as a school board trustee, I also had the pleasure of sparring with the senior administrators, many of whom didn't even understand the theories and methods they were espousing.)
 
This discussion is bringing back bad memories of my one semester of French... I was not a fan. That's probably why I flipped my 'you' from 'vous' comment. 🤬 I didn't realize how faulty my memory is. 🫤
 
djrip said:
It's like they don't review how well a story does what it set out to do, but rather, how well it does what they think stories should do. Which is fine; it's their thing. But I feel like if one of mine got reviewed, I'd be doing a lot of "Well yeah, I wasn't trying to do that... But did it work at far as what it was trying to do?"
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I don't think a reviewer has to give the author's intention total deference, but the reviewer should try in good faith to give the author broad latitude to have his or her own artistic goals and evaluate the story by how it meets those goals, rather than how it meets what the reviewer thinks the goals should be. That's what I'm going to try to do with my reviews. Whether I succeed, we'll see.
 
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