Teachers who can reflect and have a positive mindset and are open to changes are teachers who can learn and grow which is a positive outcome for student learning
I just was at the Science center for the Dogs exhibit…It was all about the relationship between humans /dogs and evolution. Among many other things…it was fantastic
One level does not stand in isolation from others and the individuals in each level all are focused on how to best support student agency in the classroom from their perspectives.
Leaders are critical to the process both in terms of providing support for teachers and in changing conceptions of assessment and the students’
participation in the use of assessment information.
The need to communicate with other living creatures is a strong one, as our daily interactions with our pets illustrates. Our cat’s insistent vocalizations (quite unique for different situations) demand response from family members daily.
“No other mammal routinely adopts other species in the wild — no gazelles take in baby cheetahs, no mountain lions raise baby deer…. Every mouthful you feed to another species is one that your own children do not eat. On the face of it, caring for another species is maladaptive, so why do we humans do this?…
The domestication of animals wasn’t merely about capturing a buffet-on-the-hoof, from Shipman’s perspective, but the continuation of a long-term evolutionary project by our species to study animals, first when we were prey for them, and later as predators ourselves….
One of the clinchers for her argument is that the first animals domesticated were not food sources, but a fellow predator and scavenger: the wolf (dogs being descendants of wolves, even a subspecies by some reckoning). Clearly, domestication wasn’t first about eating the animal: Shipman suggests, instead, that the primary impetus for domestication was to transform animals we had been observing intently for millennia into living tools during their peak years, then only later using their meat as food. “As living tools, different domestic animals offer immense renewable resources for tasks such as tracking game, destroying rodents, protecting kin and goods, providing wool for warmth, moving humans and goods over long distances, and providing milk to human infants” she said." http://neuroanthropology.net/2010/08/23/the-dog-human-connection-in-evolution/
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Teachers who can reflect and have a positive mindset and are open to changes are teachers who can learn and grow which is a positive outcome for student learning
Absolutely!
I just was at the Science center for the Dogs exhibit…It was all about the relationship between humans /dogs and evolution. Among many other things…it was fantastic
I for one LOVE all animals, but yes animals have helped us evolve and become the people we are today
…to focus on increasing student agency to achieve deeper learning and develop important lifelong
competencies.
One level does not stand in isolation from others and the individuals in each level all are focused on how to best support student agency in the classroom from their perspectives.
Leaders are critical to the process both in terms of providing support for teachers and in changing conceptions of assessment and the students’
participation in the use of assessment information.
I now get it i just saw the sentene. Etc radial buttons
Why would we need them
The need to communicate with other living creatures is a strong one, as our daily interactions with our pets illustrates. Our cat’s insistent vocalizations (quite unique for different situations) demand response from family members daily.
Well said!
I love furry animals.
“No other mammal routinely adopts other species in the wild — no gazelles take in baby cheetahs, no mountain lions raise baby deer…. Every mouthful you feed to another species is one that your own children do not eat. On the face of it, caring for another species is maladaptive, so why do we humans do this?…
The domestication of animals wasn’t merely about capturing a buffet-on-the-hoof, from Shipman’s perspective, but the continuation of a long-term evolutionary project by our species to study animals, first when we were prey for them, and later as predators ourselves….
One of the clinchers for her argument is that the first animals domesticated were not food sources, but a fellow predator and scavenger: the wolf (dogs being descendants of wolves, even a subspecies by some reckoning). Clearly, domestication wasn’t first about eating the animal: Shipman suggests, instead, that the primary impetus for domestication was to transform animals we had been observing intently for millennia into living tools during their peak years, then only later using their meat as food. “As living tools, different domestic animals offer immense renewable resources for tasks such as tracking game, destroying rodents, protecting kin and goods, providing wool for warmth, moving humans and goods over long distances, and providing milk to human infants” she said."
http://neuroanthropology.net/2010/08/23/the-dog-human-connection-in-evolution/
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