OUR SENIOR INFANT often recites information coming directly from her classroom teachers. Last week, we learned that you should not end a normal sentence on a note of inquisitiveness.
I respect that advice because nearly every one of my American cousins talk that way? You know, with a little rhetorical twist when they pause for breath? I'm putting the question marks in this blog post to hear how Soundgecko reads this post? [1]
We also got the opportunity to hear teachers at a public union meeting use their activist voices. They boomed into national radio and television with great effect. I felt their frustration. I have also felt their pain. But when I asked our senior infant, "Is that a teacher talking?" Mia stopped playing with her markers (shown above) and said "No". She has previously told me that I was using my outside voice when inside.
Mia isn't the only one who thinks a teacher's voice deserves special consideration. [2] I'm sure the topic will be discussed during the Global Voices Conference in Thurles on Saturday, May 10, 2014. [3]
[Bernie Goldbach teaches communications in the Limerick School of Art & Design.]
1. Hear Soundgecko read this: http://soundgecko.com/view/HC7P6RXMPE-w2Wjr5CH_BQh2hFmWLe/when-teachers-talk
2. Simon Lewis -- "INTO Congress: How should teachers behave?" on Anseo.net, April 25, 2014.
3. #ictedu is at ictedublog.wordpress.com