the following will be graded! do your best! get out a pen and a piece of paper, follow expected...

The following will be graded!

do your best!

Get out a pen and a piece of paper, follow expected

format, entitled …

What is Learning?

Without speaking, answer the questions that follow with a

Yes or No and

one sentence that proves (gives examples) your answer

or explains … why?

Read the questions carefully, Paradoxically, they are simple and

complex at the same time.

1What is our purpose in this

room?

Is it learning and demonstration of learning ?

Yes or No? Why?

2Students attend school, to learn skills and knowledge that will be useful to them

in the future?

Yes or No? Why?

3A student unwilling to

learn is not a real student?

Yes or No? Proof?

4Is learning taking instructions and incorporating them into

previously known ideas, skills and knowledge?

Yes or No? Proof?

5Is it understood that basic skills must be mastered

before more advanced skills can be undertaken?

Yes or No? Why?

6Is reading and following

explicit and clearly stated instructions difficult?

Yes or No? Proof?

7

Can a student expect to learn difficult skills if they fail to

master concrete and simple tasks?

Yes or No? Proof?

8Can a student expect to learn roots or possessives or how to

write a paper (and the like) which are variable without knowing

standard procedurals?(Routine expected activities)

Yes or No? Why?

9

What is proof of learning?

(Continued)

Is learning, an explicitly explained

skill – of one step –

or a series of steps – difficult to master?

Yes or No? Why?

The final questions are open ended.

please answer them in a couple of complete

(Well thought out) sentences.

How is the real test of knowledge and skills

(whether a person has actually learned and

retained a skill, procedure or technique) proved.

List three ways a writing student proves learning of

new skills !

Good!

Count up your answers.

How many YesHow many no

Now the reason for all of the Rhetorical questions.

Take notes from this point forward

too many students with quality minds are

demonstrating a effort, concentration and a lack of

learning.

If learning is the first step to a future where there is much expected from a person. Should each person prove

they are in fact actually Learning?How do you know that you are

learning?What proof do you offer yourself?

Would you say that People who have learned a task or skill,

should not have to be re-taught to do that skill or task repeatedly?

Would you say that People who have mastered a skill are ready to move on to the next needed skill?

At the beginning of the semester, everyone was instructed the following

tasks. Do you do these tasks

properly … each time they are required?

Place Name Date period and title properly on every paperDo not write in the marginsDo not write on two sides of paperDo not use a pencilDon’t turn in torn paper or with spiral edges

Has readable handwritingNo use of the word YouNo use of the term A LotNo use of the word VeryNo use of the word also

By the way – are you aware that Mr. Fowler allows all

students to take work home everyday to correct these kind of deficiencies before work is due on his desk?

no excuses, no whining

For those who have learned, please regard this as little

reminder.

For those who have refused or failed to learn (for that requires

effort and concentration), welcome to The Day of Reckoning.

From this point until the end of the year.

Students will demonstrate that they Learn and can

follow explicit instructions.

Any Papers having procedural problems will have a

–FIX – procedural issue notice attached.

no other instructions will be provided.

If you are confused, read the style guide given to you when you

entered the class.

To resubmit a paper students must correct the errors on a

wholly new edition of the work and staple it to the front of the

old incorrect work.

On the top of the new paper, students must attach another sheet of paper in the correct

format. On this sheet the student will correct one item at a time --

listing all errors of the original paper and what was done to

correct the error in the revised work.

The first error I made was not respecting margins.

I wrote in the right hand margins of the paper and on the bottom two lines of the paper. I do not write in

the margins of the new paper.

The second error I made was in the use of the word “you”.

I changed the point of view with the word you, and I know that this is against the writing rules in this class.I do not use the word you in the revised paper unless it is in a direct quotation from a source.

The third error I made was in not skipping a line after the Title at the top of the page.

I skipped a line on the revised paper.

sample corrected paper

These are the explicit instructions, Mr. Fowler will not

correct work that has procedural errors.

Students must fix the errors.Mr. Fowler allows students the opportunity to fix work without

penalty.

Prove you are learning with every paper to do.

Do it right the first time, save the aggravation of having to do it again

and again.

No excuses, no whining! Just glorious learning!

Blessed are the learners for they shall rule the world!

It seems to Mr. Fowler that most students have one job these days, becoming the

best person possible. This means learning!

Real learning, not the appearance of pseudo learning

So, are you learning?Yes or No? Prove it … On your Yes / no paper -- List five substantive things you

have learned in this class this year. When finished turn the work into the Red Basket!

This is available for viewing on Mr. Fowler’s Website

The End