By IMPACT standards, Ms. Frizzle would fizzle

[proud2BlibKansan]

This was written by Marni Barron, an instructional coach in the District of Columbia Public Schools, and Leigh Dingerson is a community organizer and writer on public education reform.

By Marni Barron and Leigh Dingerson

Recently, we were reflecting on the portrayal of teachers on screen these days. There’s the animated “dance of the lemons,” and Michelle Rhee’s teaching bashing in “Waiting for Superman.” Now comes Cameron Diaz in “The Bad Teacher.” What happened to the teacher as guide? Or the teacher as inspiration? What happened to Ms. Frizzle?

You remember Ms. Frizzle. She was the uber-elementary science teacher of the public television series “The Magic School Bus .” The show was first broadcast in 1994, based on the books by Joanna Cole. Miss Frizzle is famous for the amazing field trips that she takes her students on—a fantastic demonstration of experiential learning where students don’t just learn about life on Mars or the workings of the heart and lungs…they go there. Through the extraordinary power of the Magic School Bus, they shrink to size, and take off on educational adventures.

We remember watching episodes of The Magic School Bus with our children, hoping that our toddlers would someday have teachers as dynamic, quirky, creative and flamboyant as Ms. Frizzle. But it seems like today’s teachers are getting all the Ms. Frizzle drilled out of them, both on-screen and off.

Which got us thinking about teacher evaluations and how, like everything else, what you get depends on what you measure.

more . . . http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/miss-frizzle-fails-impact-evaluation/2011/07/18/gIQA3QyaOI_blog.html?wpisrc=nl_cuzheads

[monmouth]

1. Even "Our Miss Brooks" (Eve Arden) was a great role model..n/t

[KamaAina]

2. I used to run a multimedia lab in a small school

we had a stack of edutainment CDs, and the kids would pick up the ones they wanted, first come, first served.

The Magic School Bus ones were always the first to go. :thumbsup:

[ejpoeta]

3. my kids LOVE the magic school bus. i encourage learning through reading and educational tv.

they love to learn for sure. and i have had teachers that had a love for what they were teaching and it was infectious.