Comments on: 21st-Century Learning: The New Visionary Administrator Speaks Up! http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2009/07/01/21st-century-learning-the-new-visionary-administrator-speaks-up/ Weblog of Wesley Fryer Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:55:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Theresa http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2009/07/01/21st-century-learning-the-new-visionary-administrator-speaks-up/comment-page-1/#comment-87071 Theresa Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:19:54 +0000 http://www.speedofcreativity.org/?p=3630#comment-87071 Thank you for sharing your notes, Wes. These will help me to set my goals for the coming year as an elementary principal. Your sharing of NECC learning helped me to energize my thinking even though I could not be there. Thank you for sharing your notes, Wes. These will help me to set my goals for the coming year as an elementary principal. Your sharing of NECC learning helped me to energize my thinking even though I could not be there.

]]> By: A new world of digital choices | ISTE Connects - Educational Technology http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2009/07/01/21st-century-learning-the-new-visionary-administrator-speaks-up/comment-page-1/#comment-87013 A new world of digital choices | ISTE Connects - Educational Technology Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:54:37 +0000 http://www.speedofcreativity.org/?p=3630#comment-87013 [...] a discussion about social media policies for schools, issues surrounding content filtering, or the need for visionary school leadership, control is the issue we kept getting back [...] [...] a discussion about social media policies for schools, issues surrounding content filtering, or the need for visionary school leadership, control is the issue we kept getting back [...]

]]> By: Andrew B. Watt http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2009/07/01/21st-century-learning-the-new-visionary-administrator-speaks-up/comment-page-1/#comment-86881 Andrew B. Watt Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:13:55 +0000 http://www.speedofcreativity.org/?p=3630#comment-86881 Control. Control. Control. Control. As a colleague of mine says, "People don't like being told what to do." That pretty much sums up his approach to classroom management (of course, he's a psychologist, so classroom management mostly involves him in his chair and his one student talking to him from another chair). But it's an approach I try to emulate. The difficulty comes when I try to avoid controlling my students, and then an administrator comes in to try to control my method of controlling students.... Control.

Control. Control. Control.

As a colleague of mine says, “People don’t like being told what to do.” That pretty much sums up his approach to classroom management (of course, he’s a psychologist, so classroom management mostly involves him in his chair and his one student talking to him from another chair). But it’s an approach I try to emulate.

The difficulty comes when I try to avoid controlling my students, and then an administrator comes in to try to control my method of controlling students….

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