Observations...

I often observe one of my colleagues teach. One day I watched on from the back of the classroom as she was teaching a group of 7th graders. She stood in front of the class dumping information in, and the students would politely nod when she asked if they understood. She has never taken the time to learn anything about them and this works for her, but the students feel and show disconnect with her. It saddened me to think that when they thought of their 7th grade English class years later they were going to have this impression engrained in their minds forever. In some way she has adopted the bureaucratic mindset on teaching and it will be very hard to change. I wonder if she can change?