Supporting Teachers’ Awakening Minds

08/15/2018

Supporting Teachers’ Awakening Minds

Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along. This applies to play as well as work.
Og Mandino

Pam Oken-Wright, in a foreword to the popular new book, From Teaching to Thinking by Ann Pelo and Margie Carter, writes:

"What Pelo and Carter are proposing is that teachers learning to teach children…deserve the same support from their pedagogical leaders that they are expected to give the children. Indeed, teachers who are accustomed to being told what to do may have learned to put aside their sense of agency. They may not have learned to approach teaching as an act of inquiry, or research, and may never have experienced the pleasure of it. It may have been more comfortable to stifle their own imaginations, though they value it in the children. And if the teacher does not have a mind awakened to all the possibilities, if he feels stuck with the lesson plans and assessments required, how will he support the children’s awakening minds? Not only does this book pose the problem and expose the need, but it also offers a framework for action, with protocols a thinking pedagogical leader can use (flexibly) to support teachers’ awakening minds."

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