> Your argument, if it has any relevance to what I wrote, is that these teachers shouldn't innovate because they don't have experience teaching.
Haha okay, if you want to read my post that way there’s not much anyone can do for you.
If you can’t understand why “visionaries trying to reform education need to read this entry level blog post, and having read it I will now do the exact thing it warns against” gets eyes rolling there isn’t a whole lot else to say. I get that TFA seemed really exciting and innovative to you. It isn’t. It’s a surface-level précis of things any practitioner knows. Which is fine! Because, once again, it’s written for laymen.
Haha okay, if you want to read my post that way there’s not much anyone can do for you.
If you can’t understand why “visionaries trying to reform education need to read this entry level blog post, and having read it I will now do the exact thing it warns against” gets eyes rolling there isn’t a whole lot else to say. I get that TFA seemed really exciting and innovative to you. It isn’t. It’s a surface-level précis of things any practitioner knows. Which is fine! Because, once again, it’s written for laymen.
If you actually want to dig into the nuts and bolts, here’s a book recommendation that explores some of the points raised in TFA in depth: https://www.amazon.com/Grading-Equity-Matters-Transform-Clas...