Van who?

Stardate15 December
I was more than a little tardy with this week’s reflections. My main thoughts this week refer back to a discussion with my group regarding the assessment. We were trying to word the curriculum proposal and I came up against something new to me, new and unexpected. Teachers playing dumb. Back at school this was common, but this I didn’t expect in a teacher training course. I’ll explain a little more the two areas that caused me grief firstly we were talking about in one of the tasks about changing the look and feel of a given space, I wanted to use the word aesthetics as it is the word for what we were talking about. I was told no one will understand that Dan you’re trying to use clever words again, bangs head on table. Then we couldn’t use the obscure and niche artist Van Gogh as the learners and the validating panel wouldn’t have heard of him and Dan is being to arts fartsy. Is it me deep sigh. I never had an education, I went to Art College, this whole experience just emphasised the need for continual professional development, if the teachers are going to attempt to maintain this giggle I don’t know attitude to knowledge and learning how are we going to broaden our learner’s knowledge?