kariskoett's blog

Although I enjoy reading other people's posts, and this has certainly been a venue for conversation, debate, and learning, I am frustrated with my newfound addiction. As if I need yet another reason to be on the computer all the time!!

This is really a two-fold dilemma for teachers.  On the one hand, they are rarely held accountable for what they teach and for what actually happens in the classroom.  Generally the feeling of teachers is very territorial.  “This is my classroom, my space, stay out.”  The defensive nature of an educator is universal.  This could be for several reasons, including feelings of being unapprec

Like many things, education is one of those issues that everyone likes to have an opinion about whether they know what they’re talking about or not.  My goal is to discuss the problem in education, because there is a problem, from the bottom up.  This first discussion will be on, as the title suggests, Family Idiocracy.

Ever since I was given the writing prompt about what my names are, I have been obsessed with what we call each other.  Names are not so simple as we would like to think.  Our names are our identities.  So what is your name?  What story does your name tell?  Where does it come from?  Where has it been?

I've had lots of names.  We'll start with the original:

On being ordinary: There must be something inherently beautiful about being ordinary. So what am I, and what do I want to be? If I go beyond ordinary, I will lose the ability to relate to those who are ordinary. It is like the price we pay for education, and that thing that happens to us when we go from uneducated to educated. But if I remain ordinary, what will I have accomplished?

March 24, 2006