Return-Path: <nifl-aalpd@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id h76KMD727202; Wed, 6 Aug 2003 16:22:13 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 16:22:13 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <07A65CB3.55E9B421.0A349A3F@aol.com> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-aalpd@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-aalpd@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-aalpd@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: AWilder106@aol.com To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-aalpd@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-AALPD:573] RE: Who needs to know? X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Mailer: Atlas Mailer 2.0 Status: O Content-Length: 886 Lines: 13 "Those who can't teach.... go into some less demanding profession." I remember the study by Rosenthal about self-fulfilling prophecy--if a teacher thought the child was less able the child got lower marks. That study broke a primo teacher value--you never lie to a teacher (the job is hard enough). I always wondered how you would design a study to test the self-fulfilling prophecy hypothesis that was not ethically repellent. HOWEVER, I was at a conference on brain research last spring, very esoteric, very un-teacherly. It was clear to me from the questions asked that the teachers there had followed this research for some years, had educated themselves, and were now applying the research themselves in their classrooms. They had figured out how to do it. Skinnerian behaviorism? Maybe another educational theory that bites the dust... sure sounds that way. Andrea
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