The Teachings of a Fly, Bernard Collot What is a fly? Information! A disruption! An annoying insect! Chase it around, cover food, spray insecticide, put up window screens... UNLESS... People have asked me many times over at the start of the school year...
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The Teachings of a Fly, Bernard Collot What is a fly? Information! A disruption! An annoying insect! Chase it around, cover food, spray insecticide, put up window screens... UNLESS... People have asked me many times over at the start of the school year (1985): “But what is this so-called pedagogy of structure and communication? How does it work?” Trick question! I don’t very well know how it works! And yet, as the years go by, I have become well aware that what I am doing is not completely random. I’ve even started to be sure of it! What is it that shapes each of our teaching actions, at least mine? Well, on this beautiful day, just before the start of the term, through the open window, bzzzzzz.... I realized I was trying to organize my class according to the teachings of... a fly! And it is quite simple: a fly should...or rather must... A fly must be able to enter the classroom, perhaps land on a window. A child must be able, if need be, to see the fly, to look at it. The child must b
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