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“Slipping back” isn’t a shameful retreat from our goal—it’s part of the process of getting there.
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In education we often use metaphors to help our students understand. Are we cognizant of how these metaphors may be interpreted by our students? Is it possible that the metaphors are "setting up false expectations and giving us a misleading impression of what’s going on."
Annie Paul Murphy discusses these ideas in this post. As teachers we are constantly teaching our students strategies, and the strategies are often scaffolded, but that does not mean that the students let go of the old strategies, and only use the new ones. The move back and forth, at times choosing the one that is a known friend rather than the new one.
Our language plays a critical role in our classroom, and this post reminds us that with school beginning soon in the US we must consider how our words may be impacting our students.