WHAT IS NEW IS OLD: The Moral Core of Teaching

Giilian? I can respond with total confidence to your article?"Normal" Teaching Pedagogy Can Be Fraught With Ethical Problems. Basing assessment on the seminar as described is ethically flawed. Your observations that the seminar was a "free for all" confirm my judgement. As a discourse linguist I know that any discussion has rules of engagement; they may be only partially understood. Any teacher needs to build into planning strategies for dealing with discourse management. Even more so if assessment follows. I'm not sure - as an accredited headteacher assessor directly monitored in about 15% of assessments - that I could concentrate for 30 minutes on 15 clamouring voices unless I had a very clear checklist to work to. The student discourse manager who spends 45 seconds of their 2 minutes setting down issues for debate needs to play a cunning game to bang in tight points in their final 15 seconds.? That's not ethical. But Its how you get on in the world if you are already advantaged. What really illustrates morality would be how the clever-clogs spends its other minute helping others grow. How do you grade the unspoken "***t I was about to say that" unless cleverclogs makes a gentle prod ? I was once given feedback on a failed assessment.? The questions I used in a group discussion were all just requests for clarification.? They didn't move the discussion on. Yes, but the assessor didn't have a clue that the nonthreatening requests were deliberately chosen in an attempt to steer a headless conversation. My final evaluation comments were just "I can do it!!" Not because I knew it all (The assumption behind the judgement that I had not engaged with the process) but because my work is driven by a obsession with content. (as you'll guess from my reference to discourse linguistics ) I needed to arrive at a presentation on the basis of group discussion that unsurprisingly was delivering no content because of the blind alleys the group was being led down (Clarification questions.) So when it came to the presentation I ignored (for the first time in my career! )content I successfully based my presentation on process. Hence my evaluation. Short to give me a big boost for changing how I work.? No wonder your son was frustrated. All Process and no content is unethical. His negative behaviours - though confirming lack of ethics - will have drained him. Unethical in round two as well as round one because his confidence will have been sapped by the process. By the way, I had to fail the assessment because I had made it very clear that the programme was flawed.? It folded almost immediatgely!!? I suspect my learning that day was fundamentally immoral!!

I like your set of values but I am not certain that I would call them "moral." For me they are part of the spiritual quest. ?I now begin to flounder. Spiritual is intensely personal. ?It is not tied to any single moral code or creed. ?But groups of people who acknowledge each other on their separate spiritual journeys are a powerful moral force. ?At the same time, groups who share commitment to a declared set of moral values are often viewed by others who reject their stance as behaving in an immoral way. For me, the spiritual quest is shared by all humanity.

As a "green" trainee Physical Education teacher ... mad on Soccer and Gymnastics ... I could not at the time, in my mid-twenties, understand why we had to do Sociology and Politics of Education. My eyes and mind were opened ... especially by a book of articles "Teaching as a Subversive Activity" ... (TAASA) https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Teaching_As_a_Subversive_Activity.html?id=SeYoVm4zoVoC&source=kp_cover&redir_esc=y The particular concept that still resonates four decades later is: "... encouraging students to develop "built in shock proof 'crap' detectors" This recent review of TAASA adds some other concepts that resonate with your infographic Gillian. https://onlinelearninginsights.wordpress.com/2014/05/12/bold-and-fresh-ideas-for-education-in-teaching-as-a-subversive-activity/ Thanks for posting.