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Think, Pair, Share, Scream

Thursday 7 June 2007, 9:37 pm

The Editor

Categories: Corporate stupidity, Education

Tags: ProfessionalDevelopment, ThinkPairShare

Back when I was at school we were taught to Stop, Look, Listen before we crossed the road. Says it all, I would’ve thought. But now I notice the classic road safety theme has been expanded to SLLT — an acronym for Stop, Look, Listen, Think. For feck’s sake, why don’t we just make it SLLTBB? If we have to remind kids to think we might as well remind them to breathe and blink too.

So today I’m in a professional development session at school which was just like being back in long, boring university lectures but with the advantage of having a wireless internet laptop on which one can read blogs while looking like one’s typing notes. We got to the inevitable bit where the teacher teacher who can’t teach asks the teachers to do a Think, Pair, Share (or TPS in the biz), but the PowerPoint slide asking us to do just that had the acronym TIPS expanded out to Think, Ink, Pair, Share. You see, if you don’t explicitly remind people to write things down that they think of they won’t do it.

On a slightly related note, here’s a webcam photo I took of myself during the PD session and emailed to McBec:

Just shut up and serve the morning tea.

9 Comments

Bob (Thursday 7 June 2007, 10:54 pm) #

Oh, so Lachlan Connor is The Editor.

Sorry, I just found realised.

You’re cute, BTW. Well in the series Lachlan Connor anyway. :-P
Bruce (Friday 8 June 2007, 12:42 am) #

I try not to ink at these PD sessions. I forgot to bring a friggin’ pen to my mandatory notification refresher.

I’m a bit different though, I tend to learn more from discussion than I do from handwriting.
jLo (Friday 8 June 2007, 5:16 am) #

Ed, I love the specs! And you are looking GROWLY in that photo.
Adam (Friday 8 June 2007, 9:11 am) #

Oh, so Lachlan Connor is The Editor. (I didn’t know either!)
The Editor (Friday 8 June 2007, 11:14 am) #

It’s like Clark Kent/ Superman.
rdb (Friday 8 June 2007, 2:20 pm) #

Hey Ed, what’s with the mous gras?
Steve (Friday 8 June 2007, 3:45 pm) #

the teacher teacher who can’t teach

Ah yes, I know those! They distract the attention of large crowds so you can catch up on a backlog of marking.
LornaDoone (Friday 8 June 2007, 7:25 pm) #

Oh. I didn’t realise you looked like that.

*shudders*

You look like a monkey.
The Editor (Friday 8 June 2007, 7:48 pm) #

That’s going straight to the pool room.