Sometimes we forget that teachers are quite human, too, and susceptible to all of the "loose screws," as Senge calls them, different modes of communication, different philosophies of life, and so on. As such, using the methodology of the Fifth Discipline will not only empower greater cooperation, but plant the seeds of innovation and appropriate evolution into the classroom experience.
Choose one or more of the article that synthesized your understanding of curriculum development. Provide a rational for your selection.
For my own style in the classroom, which tends to be more Socratic in nature, the article "Better Teaching with Deming and Bloom," (2004), provided a more robust and approachable synthesis of what is needed within the modern curriculum. Generally speaking, most instruction, according...
Instead, it is in the best interest of pedagogy and the student to teach higher levels of critical thinking so that it is less important that the right answer be regurgitated, and more important that a thinking and analytical process occur. Education is not just about memorization, it is about finding information, making judgments about that information, and then, using previous experience and knowledge, synthesizing that information into a new (at least for the learner) mode. If one cannot apply principles of mathematics, analyze what an author is saying, synthesize disparate information into a personal evaluation, then one is not well equipped to deal with the emerging global society and/or the tremendous amount of information one must digest in
