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Week ONE: Hello and welcome! I am excited that we have the opportunity to share our expertise, viewpoints, questions and reflections. I am hoping that this wiki will allow us to interact during our own time and allow us to participate while relaxed and free of other expectations. During this week, and consecutive weeks, please visit the site often to share, respond, question or just to see if anyone else has added an item. The discussions will always be available, so if you have something to add, retract or re-evaluate do so. This wiki is a place for us to hold our thinking so that we can come back to it and work with it. What we take from this book study will be reflected and influenced by what we put into it. Let's begin with a discussion about the following:
 * Where are we? Right now how would you describe the current state of teaching?
 * What are we teaching for? What is the aim of our teaching?
 * What should we be teaching for?
 * Is there a difference between What are we teaching for and What we should be teaching for?

Moving on... Please share your thinking or wondering around the following questions.


 * What attributes or characteristics are exhibited by intelligent people?
 * What does intelligence look like in action?
 * Please share your experiences working with students.
 * Is there a difference between being smart and acting smart?
 * Are there processes, routines or activities that you use with students that are geared toward accessing student intelligence?
 * Please share any you are using

To begin the discussion, click on the discussion tab at the top of the page.


 * Read Part One: The Case for Intellectual Character for our session beginning on 18 October. **