Subversive Thinker

The activity fallacy: an obsession with instructional novelty has produced a strange inversion of priorities. Teachers are sent on courses to acquire new “strategies,” to diversify their repertoire of techniques. Meanwhile, the curriculum they are teaching may be completely incoherent, the sequence arbitrary, the assessment disconnected from both. This is what @Counsell_C calls an “intransitive pedagogy”; a pedagogy without an object.

@AndyNelson1977 @edudissenter ADHD, ASD, dyslexia. The broadness, the lack of precision, the huge marketing clout, the activism. Then there’s anxiety. Another term used as a catch all. Used & abused. Top of my head.

Ignore those speaking as “experts” on behaviour who have no understanding let alone qualified in disability, trauma, or human rights law. They build authority from opinion, not evidence. They dismiss trauma-informed practice because they’ve never been trained in it. They speak over disabled children, their parents and those who actually understand the law protecting them. Being loud is not the same as being qualified. #DisabilityRights #AgainstRestraint #PandemicOfPunishment #InclusionNotIsolation #ICARS

@JennyAThatcher @MelvilleDr @VSDawson I live in a bigger house than you, and in a nicer neighbourhood, which I think is more indicative of success but each to their own.