tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16908834.post3643141544453193850..comments2024-03-05T09:00:51.695-08:00Comments on DISSENT the BLOG: "White paper" concerning the Early College program (at IVC)Rebel Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00695051285325585662noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16908834.post-61089720381377550952009-10-05T10:11:47.098-07:002009-10-05T10:11:47.098-07:00Chris raises substantive points - all of which I w...Chris raises substantive points - all of which I worried about when I first heard this program. But few want to hear these kind of concerns - they just want to shove the program down our throats - and if we resist we're seen as not playing along. We've drifted away from actual teaching and into some kind of version of shopping at CostCo. We're at the checkstand just adding it all up.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16908834.post-40242256850657332382009-10-04T02:29:44.446-07:002009-10-04T02:29:44.446-07:00"...high school and IVC administrators, many ..."...high school and IVC administrators, many of whom seem to have little comprehension of either teaching or learning."<br /><br />Administrators are by and large mere bean counters who have long ago lost any comprehension of teaching and learning, if they ever had any to begin with. Decisions and initiatives are simply based on the latest fads and buzz words, and they tend to dismiss reasoned objections like those offered here to their latest hare-brained scheme as laziness, intransigence, or "unwillingness to change or cooperate" on the part of the faculty. <br /><br />Thus it is up to the faculty to protect educational values, to restrain the administrative bulls in the academic china shop, which too often requires patiently laying out for them, as has been ably done here, the basic principles that should be obvious to them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com