Good Thinking

Good - Of quality, genuine, desirable, effective, valid, advantageous, kind, friendly, feeling well or elated
Thinking - Mental activity

I come to "Good Thinking" as a teacher who once thought her job was to teach her students reading, writing and subject area material and who now believes her work is to strengthen her students' capacities (ie. abilities) to learn and to do. Whereas reading and writing still hold great import, I am in the process of comprehending that the larger issue at question is one of communication. And subject area material...well, that has just become a big game of trivial pursuit. Facts memorized short term for tests are long gone once the testing is over and ironically, may become out-dated just as easily. What remains is life before us and the impulse to move forward.

And so I do my best to prepare learners for life's lessons. Each decision needing made is a multiple choice test. The questions are infinite and the possible answers equally mind boggling. To progress we all benefit from good thinking.