The title of the section is interesting - "How Should Teaching be Appropriately Depersonalized". I think teaching is very personal BUT I think the authors are saying it is "not all about me" - as "me" as the "teacher" the ONLY expert working alone in my "space at the mall". Love the "nothing personal but...." idea mentioned (it's hard to get past the personal though...like when people start with "don't take this personally" but of course, I would...
Many of the ideas presented under "what we would find if the principle" were honored are in the control of curriculum and development - for example the professional development opportunities, surveys, assessment creation (we have essential questions framing the curriculum and units), etc.
The student involvement in their own learning is an area I think we could get teachers excited about (Principle 3) Many great ideas are presented in this chapter and it gives good examples on how to depersonalize teaching - I think it is a lot harder to do then to write about -
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