One of my favorite subjects in school has always been history (in particular, history of WWII). The expression, "history repeats itself" is really true. For example, there are so many parallels that can be drawn from historical events to the modern day Globaloria student in WV (I will elaborate on this later in another blog).
To get to the point....one of my favorite movies about history is U571 in which the US and Allied forces are chasing down the coding machine of the Germans called the Enigma Machine. The Allied forces knew the secret to winning the war was in getting this machine along with its code book. My parallel: I feel like Globaloria can take the role of the Allied forces, and we educators are the Allied Forces furiously seeking out the Enigma Machine and code book that will help us "break the code" of the modern day student. And to draw my parallel to a close, we educators need to furiously seek out and break that code!
How do we break the code? We have to get in the trenches with the students and teach (and learn) by example. We have to work furiously with our Allied Forces to constantly monitor our "ahha" and "wow" moments. In doing this we not only help our students we even nurture a growing (and hopefully productive) community that can help us "Win the War"!
Angie, I think this is wonderfully inciteful (even with a science person talking history lol.) We really do need to evaluate the ah ha moments we have in each class. They are not cookie cutter students with one trick fits all situations.
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