[SENco-forum] Re: More crazy jargon

Hi Sharon -- when I was doing a quite down to earth psychology course with the very good OU back in the late 80's -- we called what you've encountered as 'psychobabble' -- an apt piece of jargon. Brendan  

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Sent: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 3.59PM
Subject: RE: [SENco-forum] Re: More crazy jargon

The latest book I am reading is on 'Reflective Practice', directed at new
teachers and is asking me 'Are you feeling part of the classroom?' It is
telling me to 'get in touch with my valid emotions - anxiety, bewilderment
or a feeling of being overwhelmed.'

What is overwhelming me at the moment is the sheer level of touchy feely new
age jargon being thrown at me by management consultants masquerading as
lecturers/teachers.

Excuse me while I pop off to deal with Exercise 1 -use words that convey
deep feelings (eager/frustrated/and all the earlier examples!) to describe a
single incident that moved or challenged you regarding your new
responsibilities or role as a teacher.

That would be the defining moment when I realised that the very deep
breathing and slow counting I am now employing is a valid learning strategy
allowing me to acknowledge and validate my feelings whilst resisting my
initial impulse to strangle the author, or become embittered by the very
deep and real hatred she/ he has awakened in me.

I can now say that I am able to: participate alongside a wide ability range
of students, engineering and coordinating learning opportunities to maximise
alternative learning styles to individualise and accommodate a diversity of
learners in a way that enables the learner population to both embrace our
share time together whilst positively affecting learning outcomes.....and I
thought that was what a good teacher did without having to spell it out in
words of ONLY 3 or more syllables.  No wonder I get A for practical and C-
for self evaluation.

I feel like a dinosaur (and that is not as a result of wanting to expand my
learning in a Multi-Intelligence Naturalist sort of way!)

Sharon

PS  Is there a special educational thesaurus I am missing?

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