My 4th C4T was Mrs. Paula White. The 1st post of her's I commented on was about grouping students together. Mrs. White said that she wanted to group her students according to their achievements and not their abilities. She said that we are not capable of determining a child's abilities, we can only go by what they've done in life. I agree completely with Mrs. White. We do not know what our students can do and grouping them according to what we think they can do only marks them for failure. If we put all the students in one class who we believe are the least likely to succeed, they'll know what we think of them. They will begin to not believe in themselves and eventually give up trying to learn.
Paula White's next post was titled "Planting...or Uncovering Brilliance." Mrs. White and some of her colleagues had a discussion about whether educators plant brilliance or uncover their students' brilliance. I commented on Mrs. White's post and stated that I believe it's a combination of both. Educators uncover their student's brilliance but they also plant the necessary tools their students will need to succeed.
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