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The truth is, I must be getting older, and I find it increasingly difficult to align myself with one side or the other. And I know this goes against the grain of a society that\u2019s becoming ever more polarized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you\u2019re a football fan, the rival team is always worse and always gets extra help. If you belong to a political party, you can\u2019t say anything about your own party\u2019s corruption, and instead you must always criticize the other one, even when it makes coherent and reasonable proposals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

If you\u2019re a teacher, you don\u2019t escape it, either. Even without belonging to any group, factions seem to form, and people pigeonhole you without even asking. I remember not so long ago, someone labeled me as being \u201cfrom the Bofill\u201d (a Catalan foundation that works on education). And they didn\u2019t say it because of any contractual relationship, which I\u2019ve never had, but as if it were an ideological thing. And, as I want to assert in this modest article, I rebel against those factions. The Bofill Foundation has studies I find very insightful and worth reading, and it also has initiatives that make me feel somewhat embarrassed, feeding into this polarization. And it\u2019s normal that many people could say the same about me. And that\u2019s good. I recall a tweet from someone who said they had mixed feelings about me: they were grateful that I had created CoRubrics<\/em>, but completely disagreed with my opinions on competency-based assessment (he didn\u2019t say it like that, but I\u2019m sure he also felt some second-hand embarrassment). And with that respect, it\u2019s very good and very healthy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I look back at my blog and, if anyone wants to place me in a camp, they\u2019ll find nothing but contradictions. And thanks to that, I can have conversations with many people who think differently, and they enrich me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I defend, without a doubt, the need for memory in education. We could discuss how to ensure that students learn certain concepts by heart, but there\u2019s no question in my mind that it\u2019s very necessary. However, basing everything on rote memorization and regurgitating it in an exam, there\u2019s an abyss there. I talked about that here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Likewise, I have defended and continue to defend project-based learning. I believe that, in addition to the specific competences of the subjects directly involved, it provides students with essential transversal skills (which are usually not assessed in international tests): teamwork, autonomy, communication, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But again, organizing everything around projects, that\u2019s another abyss. I have defended and continue to defend the use of diverse methodologies. I think it\u2019s a bad sign when a school defines itself primarily by the use of a single methodology. Likewise, I talked about that here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Experience tells me that the restorative approach helps a lot in creating a good classroom climate and in fostering student responsibility. But just a year ago, as part of a teaching team for 1st year of secondary school, I was the one who asked management to expel a student for a week. Contradictory actions?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I call all of this the middle path<\/em>. It\u2019s true that it\u2019s a somewhat uncomfortable position, since you always have disagreements (big or small). But it\u2019s tremendously enriching. Thinking for yourself, reading and listening a lot, contrasting ideas with your own experience, reviewing what you\u2019ve done to improve, and, above all, making lots of mistakes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The middle path doesn\u2019t allow you to have your own \u201cclub,\u201d and it means that sometimes, those with whom you often agree suddenly don\u2019t understand your position, because it doesn\u2019t align with what the \u201cclub\u201d preaches. But if we\u2019re to understand each other and all row in the same direction to improve education, we must be willing to take the middle path.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A path that, in truth, isn\u2019t really in the middle. In fact, at least in my case, it zigzags. In some aspects it leans more to one side, and in others, more to the opposite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This means that there are people today who are references for me, or at least who provoke reflection, with whom I often disagree and sometimes agree. Certainly, with some I agree more often, and with others less. But with all of them, I find points of connection. I\u2019ll mention a few names, among the many I could, to show the diversity: Jaume Cela, Coral Reg\u00ed, Gregorio Luri, Boris Mir, Jordi Mart\u00ed, H\u00e9ctor Ruiz, Juan Fern\u00e1ndez, Sergio del Moral, Elena Ferro, Roger Fust\u00e9\u2026 Some could easily be placed in very different camps. If a certain person says something, and they seem aligned with one group or another, we already listen with suspicion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I believe that this middle path is probably the key to moving forward. It allows you, one day, to firmly defend positions alongside one of those factions, which I\u2019m not even sure who defined and the next day, on another issue, to be right alongside the supposed opposite faction. But always with a degree of separation that allows you to seek empathy and understanding with those who think differently, however different they may be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I can already imagine someone thinking: \u201cAll this talk about the middle path, but when it comes to grading and assessment, I don\u2019t see you much in the middle.\u201d And they\u2019re probably absolutely right. But taking the middle path is more about an attitude, about refusing to form sides and conflicts, than about holding a specific position on an educational issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And that\u2019s it, after venting a bit here on the blog (which, basically, is what it\u2019s for), after almost a year without posting anything (and not for lack of topics), we return to temporary hibernation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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