Chapter 12 references good teaching to jazz music and includes quotes from jazz performers like Duke Ellington and Dizzies Gillespie. Duke Ellington’s quote, “Jazz today, as always in the past, is a matter of thoughtful creation, not mere unaided instinct,” needs to be printed on all school pamphlets with the beginning changed to “Teaching today….I am tired of hearing what a great job you have, you only work nine months out the year. Or those who can’t do.. –Teach.” If teaching to the diversity of my students’ learning styles, socioeconomic class, cultures, and technological literacy was so easy, then why am I spending week nights and weekends developing activities to assist my students in their learning?
In order to teach in today’s society, educators need to be knowledgeable in content areas, learning styles, developmental abilities, and technology integration. Each of the following needs to be interdependent, for one alone cannot be used to be an effective educator. If teaching was based on creation alone, then the natural instinct required to adjust teaching instructions to meet the needs of diversity in learners may not be successful. The quote from Branford Marsalis, “You don’t know what you like, you like what you know. In order to know what you like, you have to know everything.” This quote correlates to the knowledge required to be an effective teacher.
Once again this chapter stresses the importance of TPCK in education. Applying TPCK “activity types” with technology tools to curriculum standards can help educators design more flexibly, and diverse lesson plans. As educators with years of experience behind us have learned, we know that we need to have an open mind when it comes to using new instructional tools and resources. Dizzie Gillespie quote, “ It’s taken me all my life to learn what not to play,” expressed the need to have an open mind in order to develop TPCK.
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