What if THINKING and REASONING were the SOURCE of answers rather than an acronym or a graphic organizer? (Thank you Jenny Martin.)
Wait...they are: TRUTH and DISCERNMENT live in the seat of cognition.
Why does this matter?
Because teachers and literacy leaders are searching for new acronyms and new graphic organizers as if tricks are the savior for responding to assessment redesign. What a fruitless endeavor! There will never be a way to bypass thinking and reasoning because you bypass the person's path to truth. People find truth by thinking and reasoning. And each person's path is uniquely their own.
Why does that matter?
Because meaning dictates form. When we predetermine someone's form (RACE) for them, their meaning suffers. They can't follow their own path of reasoning to find their own truth. Our form prevents their discernment.
Even worse, by inhibiting the path, some people (students) feel dumb because they can't see what they thought --or thought we wanted them to say -- with our form.
Even worse, we miss out on fresh insight and clarity when someone sees something in a way we did not.
I can't wait to show you the solutions we are presenting at Teach Rhymes with Beach.
We think you already know what to do if you listen to your teacher heart: We are teaching how to find truth through discernment, not teaching how to answer a question that achieves a particular score.
Shona and Gretchen
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