Symphony

 ** Symphony ** is about relationships. Conceptual-age thinkers understand connections between diverse, and seemingly separate, disciplines. They must become adept at analogies and metaphor masters. (Pink, // A Whole New Mind // )   ** Videos: **  ==Metaphors and Analogies from the [|TeacherVision Site] ==  “The most creative among us see relationships the rest of us never notice.” ( Pink, // A Whole New Mind // )    ** Why Are Analogies and Metaphors Important? **  1. Good teachers use metaphors and analogies to make new and unfamiliar concepts more meaningful to students by connecting what they already know to what they are learning.  2. Good readers know how to use analogies and metaphors to get at the meaning of a passage. <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; margin-left: 0.25in; margin-right: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.25in;"> 3. When students create their own analogies for new concepts, the analogy can provide a way to assess their understanding of the new concepts  <span style="display: block; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; margin-left: 0.25in; margin-right: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.25in;"> 4. Metaphors and analogies add "sparkle" to student writing. <span style="display: block; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;">“Analogical thought is highly important in reasoning. We reason analogically whenever we make a decision about something new in our experience by drawing a parallel to something old.” - Sternberg, //Psychological Review//, 1977 <span style="display: block; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;">“Everything you create is a representation of something else; in this sense, everything you create is enriched by metaphor.” - Twla Tharp, choreographer <span style="display: block; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;"><span style="border-bottom-color: gray; border-bottom-width: 1pt; display: block; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;">Dan Pink wrote a blog post honoring the late William P. Foster, who redesigned the marching band. <span style="display: block; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;"> <span style="border-bottom-color: gray; border-bottom-width: 1pt; display: block; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;"> ====<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 17px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">Watch a video of the <span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|FAMU Marching 100 at Miami] ==== <span style="display: block; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;">
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<span style="display: block; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;"><span style="display: block; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;">Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi, the University of Chicago psychologist who wrote //Flow: The// <span style="line-height: 115%; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;">// Psychology of Optimal Experience // found that creativity involves the crossing of two <span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;">domains--being a boundary-crosser. <span style="display: block; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;">(Pink, //A Whole New Mind//) <span style="display: block; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;"> <span style="display: block; line-height: 115%; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;">** Boundary-Crossers -- ("traveling in many worlds, fitting in non") ** <span style="display: block; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;">- develop expertise in multiple spheres  <span style="display: block; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;">- speak different languages  <span style="display: block; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;">- reject either/or choices and seek multiple options and blended solutions  <span style="display: block; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;">- lead hyphenated jobs with hyphenated identities  <span style="display: block; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;">- often cross gender role stereotyping (pyschologically androgynous)  <span style="display: block; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;"> <span style="display: block; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #333333; display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Grande','Arial Unicode MS',sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;">I agree with Pink that the world needs "boundary crossers"(2005, p.143). The people that develop"expertise in multiple spheres, they speak different languages, and they find joy in the rich variety of human experience"(Pink, 2005, p.134). Children should be taught to look beyond the immediacy of their own lives, to begin to understand and appreciate differences, and to experience new things without hesitation or stereotype. While Pink emphasizes the necessity of these boundary crossers for the creation of new jobs and communicating in global markets, I find the necessity to begin in classrooms of young children. Allowing children to listen to the experiences, feelings, and lives of their peers in the rich tapestry of multi-cultural life. Border crossers, early in life can help defy stereotypes, and advocate for those who are being silenced or oppressed. Children who participate in this thinking early in life will most likely carry it with them, and be a force for change in the rest of their lives. <span style="display: block; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #333333; display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Grande','Arial Unicode MS',sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;">- [|Mary Geisser]

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