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Three Things You May Not Know About My Education:
1. I was part of the great Open Plan experiment during the 70s
2. Which meant I never had structured lessons
3. Which meant I got to college, not knowing how to write an essay, what grammar was, my maths knowledge stopped at integers, i wasn't taught science.

Three Things You May Not Know About the Job(s) I've Had:
1. Waitressing sucks
2. I worked at an ATC
3. None of them paid enough to lodge a tax return

Three Things You May Not Know About My Online Life:
1. I've been doing this in one way or another since 1985
2. My oldest friend is someone i met online (Hi Batty)
3. My first alias was Lady Daisy


Three Things You May Not Know About Where I Live:
1. This house is about 60 years old
2. I've lived here 11 years
3. This is the longest time i have lived in one spot bar the house i grew up in

Three Things You May Not Know About My Personality:
1. I procrastinate a lot
2. I dont really care what people think of me
3. you piss me off and you'll know it

Three Things You May Not Know that I Desperately Want:
1. My own home
2. my knee fixed
3. To be happy and settled in my life.

Three Things You May Not Know About What I Do in a Typical Day:
1. I go to bed anytime up to 3am
2. I wake up after 8 hours sleep
3. I always watch Dr Phil.. I want to be him when I grow up

Date: 2004-10-06 08:47 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lorriejharris.livejournal.com
*YOINK* :D

Been awhile since I've done one of these. XD

Date: 2004-10-06 09:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] funnelwebkitten.livejournal.com
hehe, its fun, one of the more fun ones

Education

Date: 2004-10-07 05:25 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
>Three Things You May Not Know About My Education:
>1. I was part of the great Open Plan experiment during the 70s

Interesting that you have chosen a school like that for our children.

Re: Education

Date: 2004-10-07 06:02 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] funnelwebkitten.livejournal.com
There is no comparison between open plan 1970s and Lambert, none at all.

Re: Education

Date: 2004-10-07 02:04 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
I'm sure there is a difference, and I'll admit to only having spent one day following the children around the school and attending their lessons.

The children do spend a great amount of time in unstructured multi grade groups without enough desks to sit at teaching themselves or other students. On their last visit one of the children complained about not having the slightest idea about what was happening in her maths class because she missed the first 2 days of the unit about 3 weeks before. Comments to the teacher achieved nothing. We went over the basics with her and she seemed to be getting it.

The timetable is written up on a white board, is changed weekly and is subject to change on a daily basis. The subject "Wilma" where the content is found out when you arrive is an interesting way of doing it. This class ended up being spread across 3 rooms with one teacher.

Time spent in the "Reading" class was interesting - it seemed to be about finding ways of reading notes passed to each other without the teacher seeing (it was easy when the teacher left the room).

I'm sure it works ok for some, but I'm not sure it works for our children.

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