Sandy’s take on dogme
There’s a lot to love about dogme and dogme-influenced classroom approaches. With individual students, we tie dogme principles to performance support, which leads to an emergent syllabus, and that’s it..with the right teacher that’s the most powerful BE environment that we have found.
That said, Sandy’s send up of dogme is too funny. If you’ve spent any time on the dogme Yahoo group this will crack you up. (Warning: may be offensive to some.)
So glad my efforts have been appreciated! I’ll try and keep the standard up, but it’s hard work…
Love your blog, though. But there are too many long words for me. Is there an abridged or Early-
Learner version available?
Comment by Sandy — May 14, 2006 @ 12:54 pm
Hey Sandy - thanks for dropping by.
The problem with an early-learner edition is that then we’d have to actually think about the ideas we’re writing about, instead of just grabbing a thesaurus, and thinking is just too time-consuming. Our approach, rather, is summed up nicely by Rachel Aspden in the New Statesman today: “65 per cent shattering banality presented in a froth of Latinate polysyllables” (and we’re working hard to eliminate that remaining 35%).
Comment by Cleve — May 15, 2006 @ 8:51 am