Comments on: Good trip, bad trip http://www.joannejacobs.com/2009/02/good-trip-bad-trip/ Thinking and Linking by Joanne Jacobs Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:51:22 +0000 hourly 1 By: John Drake http://www.joannejacobs.com/2009/02/good-trip-bad-trip/#comment-44037 John Drake Wed, 18 Feb 2009 02:33:12 +0000 http://joannejacobs.com/?p=7635#comment-44037 Margo/Mom will defend *anything*. Margo/Mom will defend *anything*.

]]> By: Ms. M http://www.joannejacobs.com/2009/02/good-trip-bad-trip/#comment-44036 Ms. M Tue, 17 Feb 2009 04:32:02 +0000 http://joannejacobs.com/?p=7635#comment-44036 To respond to Margo/Mom--There was no lesson plan for the trip. Our school doesn't require that. You don't even have to have a compelling sentence about the purpose of the trip. I'm not suggesting that there is no possible way this type of trip could be educational (a commenter on my blog suggested a way she could make it educational and Margo/Mom suggested another) I am just saying that it was definitely not the case in this trip. As for the trip that I took my students on, it was, as I wrote in my blog, connected to our year-long Flat Stanley Project. To respond to Margo/Mom–There was no lesson plan for the trip. Our school doesn’t require that. You don’t even have to have a compelling sentence about the purpose of the trip. I’m not suggesting that there is no possible way this type of trip could be educational (a commenter on my blog suggested a way she could make it educational and Margo/Mom suggested another) I am just saying that it was definitely not the case in this trip. As for the trip that I took my students on, it was, as I wrote in my blog, connected to our year-long Flat Stanley Project.

]]> By: Margo/Mom http://www.joannejacobs.com/2009/02/good-trip-bad-trip/#comment-44035 Margo/Mom Mon, 16 Feb 2009 17:07:35 +0000 http://joannejacobs.com/?p=7635#comment-44035 Hard to say that there was little or no value, given that no one is looking at the lesson plan. NY Teacher sort of plays gotcha a bit by asking the kids if their teacher told them anything about Times Square. Are there third grade lessons that might connect to these venues? Making change? Some entrepreneurial concept? Likewise, I cannot say that the Egypt trip was inherently more connected to any learning in an organized way. I suggest that NY Teacher should be talking to her colleagues about what they were teaching on their trip. Maybe it was nothing--on the other hand, perhaps it was something very profound in a uniquely attractive situation. Something the kids will recall every time they walk into one of those venues--which is often. Hard to say that there was little or no value, given that no one is looking at the lesson plan. NY Teacher sort of plays gotcha a bit by asking the kids if their teacher told them anything about Times Square. Are there third grade lessons that might connect to these venues? Making change? Some entrepreneurial concept?

Likewise, I cannot say that the Egypt trip was inherently more connected to any learning in an organized way. I suggest that NY Teacher should be talking to her colleagues about what they were teaching on their trip. Maybe it was nothing–on the other hand, perhaps it was something very profound in a uniquely attractive situation. Something the kids will recall every time they walk into one of those venues–which is often.

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