I mentioned in a previous post my general dislike of jargon in education - of which there is a great deal, trust me. This relates to my similar distrust of any kind of theorising about teaching (which, I suppose, in its turn relates to my essential abhorrence of Literary Theory.)
Will this work on a rainy, windy Monday morning at 9.00 with a difficult class?; or a dull, warm Thursday afternoon when everyone just wants to sleep? And if it doesn't, what do you do to keep the wagon on the road?
That's what I needed to know when I started out as a completely hopeless, clueless teacher. It took me a couple of years to be able to frame answers that generally worked, and I never saw any particular reason to get beyond that. Still don't. My interest lies in the particular, not the general.
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