Unlikely source for teaching advice?
With the iPod set to random whilst driving home tonight I had a blast from the past and had The Wildhearts’ track ‘Lovesh*t” blaring out – and then remembered these lyrics moments before I heard them:
“Teacher, teacher won’t you open your eyes, teach me something that I need to know?”
How much do we hear this at the moment, that classess and education needs to be more ‘relevant’ (bearing in mind this track was recorded in 1993)?
What tracks and lyrics do you know that have a message for educators?
When I overhear the way some staff speak to students – particularly staff on “help” desks – in my head Patty Griffin is softly singing “how hard would it have been to say some kinder words instead?”…