Monica Williams-Mitchell's Profile

This is a direct parallel to what happens each day in classrooms. Typically the higher achieving students are very happy to be told what to do because they have developed skills in giving teachers what they want. They're good at it and can remain a non-committed learner and have success as defined by high grades. The moment we ask students to take charge of their learning, it suggests a level of commitment, engagement and discomfort that many aren't willing to accept. Asking students what they want to learn and how they want to learn it is a shift of major proportions. I'm not suggesting we fully adopt a system where authority and guidance have no place but at present, there is very little opportunity for students to take control and charge of their learning.  I'm not sure we're ready to move in that direction  until we can get teachers to begin to own their learning as well.

This is a direct parallel to what happens each day in classrooms. Typically the higher achieving students are very happy to be told what to do because they have developed skills in giving teachers what they want. They're good at it and can remain a non-committed learner and have success as defined by high grades. The moment we ask students to take charge of their learning, it suggests a level of commitment, engagement and discomfort that many aren't willing to accept. Asking students what they want to learn and how they want to learn it is a shift of major proportions. I'm not suggesting we fully adopt a system where authority and guidance have no place but at present, there is very little opportunity for students to take control and charge of their learning.  I'm not sure we're ready to move in that direction  until we can get teachers to begin to own their learning as well.

The Federal Reserve Board provides a Web page with an extensive list of definitions and questions to guide those who are considering an ARM. Even armed with such assistance, the reading of documents and the asking of questions is still a demanding task. There are no short cuts or easy ways to manage the process.

MY sister, Mrs. Joe Gargery, was more than twenty years older
than I, and had established a great reputation with herself and
the neighbours because she had brought me up 'by hand.' Having
at that time to find out for myself what the expression meant,
and knowing her to have a hard and heavy hand, and to be
much in the habit of laying it upon her husband as well as upon
me, I supposed that Joe Gargery and I were both brought up by
hand.

Johns