Ambitious instruction. Of course instruction ought to be ambitious, it needs to be rigorous. No one is questioning this University of Chicago Consortium Essential. On this parents and educators of all stripes can agree. But, like the other U of C Essentials, answers need to be generated concerning what this looks like and will schools, and the public-at-large, step up and facilitate this critical aspect associated with student learning.
I believe one impediment to Ambitious Instruction is the rendering of teaching to a rote type of enterprise. I see more and more school districts embarking on a path of requiring teachers to become proficient in the use or one or two prescriptive teaching/instruction styles. Schools are requiring ALL teachers to perform in such a manner.
Doing something of this nature, in my view, can serve to diminish the unique gifts that are possessed by individual teachers. This uniqueness trait has always been at the very center of a strong instruction tradition in this country.
Dick
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