delanceyplace.com 6/14/10 - teaching - http://delanceyplace.blogspot.com/2010...
Jun 15, 2010
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" 'Right Is Right' is about the difference between partially right and all-the-way right - between pretty good and 100 percent. The job of the teacher is to set a high standard for correctness: 100 percent. The likelihood is strong that students will stop striving when they hear the word right (or yes or some other proxy), so there's a real risk to naming as right that which is not truly and completely right. When you sign off and tell a student she is right, she must not be betrayed into thinking she can do something that she cannot."
- Keith Pelczarski