What does cumulative mean? It means that you will be responsible for all of the content of the class from the first day. Uh, oh! 3 am my handsome other man in the house darkened my door to my bleary eyes. In silence we knew...Today is the day! I stood next to him in the doorway at open house when the teacher rattled a bunch of does and don'ts and the only thing I came away with was cumulative. Uh, oh! Today is the day! Is he ready? Is he alert? Is he fed? That is my business, these days. He went through 10,000 years of human history with his teacher in one semester and all I can say is. Uh, oh! Today is the cumulative final. All of the histories of my discussions on finals with Dad flood my mind and every point that I passed and failed sit on my shoulders. Thanks Dad. He seems to walk beside me and calm me down from my rantings where I would imitate him. No! don't yell at him, tell him that you love him either way, pass or fail, win or lose. I hear you, Dad, I say. I wish I could hug him one more time, but he's implanted so much of himself in me that there is nothing left to hug. Cumulative!
Exponential~ is a tad bit more hunh? In his book of a few years ago Hill Harper calls our children the new & improved version He tells them that If Einstein came back today he would not be able to get gas for his car or get money out of the ATM. Can we spark that knowledge & that love of learning? so that we don't just repeat what we've learned but we also build upon it. Great post thanks
ReplyDeleteI love it! Qunatum Learning! If they just do what they are told it will be exponential learning. He says he thinks he did okay. Now I hope he sleeps off his studying fit. I like seeing how people study without fear as a motivation. It is so beautiful and I can't imagine what makes him do it.:)
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