| Body | From http://www.path2proficiency.com
Your InterCom editor, who still has files of materials she used in her Spanish classes twenty years ago, cringed when she read Sharon Deering’s post on the path to proficiency blog recently. In her post, Ms. Deering challenges us as follows:
“Is it possible that our eclectic collections of “stuff” in our classrooms result in fuzzy, unfocused thinking in our planning? Do the many options of resources, activities, props, and realia we have collected over the years cause us to give in to the temptation to choose one of these things to use and they try to maneuver the learning target to fit our choice? If so, I fear we may be in danger of losing the essential focus of a proficiency-based classroom.”
She goes on, “It goes back to the idea of backward-design lesson planning. We, along with our students, determine our learning targets, decide how we will know we have reached those targets, and then plan how to get there. From our collections of stuff, we need only consider those items that can efficiently and productively help our students down the path toward their targets.”
Read the full blog post at http://www.path2proficiency.com/the-life-changing-magic-of-tidying-the-learning-environment/ and prepare to consider getting rid of some of your carefully-collected files of materials.
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