The "third annual" Cecil Floyd Art Walk is scheduled for next Tuesday, January 29. I am so glad, and have always been proud, that Joplin Schools still values the arts of all types for our students. Nationally, however, teachers are struggling to keep the art of teaching from being overshadowed by the science of teaching.
Sometimes we wonder if student assessment numbers are more important than the students themselves. Are we more concerned with scores than we are with motivating students to wonder, explore, and discover? Is the same consideration given to a teacher who has a special spark with students? Or, at the risk of mixing metaphors, do we "paint ourselves into a corner" in our efforts to get everybody "on the same page"?
Sometimes we wonder if student assessment numbers are more important than the students themselves. Are we more concerned with scores than we are with motivating students to wonder, explore, and discover? Is the same consideration given to a teacher who has a special spark with students? Or, at the risk of mixing metaphors, do we "paint ourselves into a corner" in our efforts to get everybody "on the same page"?
“Each morning, waking, the soul should feel the urge to rise to the ideal
person one ought to be from the person one is” (Leroy Brownlow).
person one ought to be from the person one is” (Leroy Brownlow).
