Postman article vs. Co-op

As I was finishing the Postman article, I found myself being reminded of my co-op through the good examples that they gave. For example:
"His basic mode of discourse with students is questioning" (34). My co-op is all about class discussions and questioning students to see where they are at, what they are thinking regarding the topic or subject and real world issues that relate to the topic of that lesson. My co-op is very good with coming up with essential questions that will make them think. We just finished "The Lottery," and "A Worn Path," and he had them as a class fill out huge charts of paper each printed with a literary term, "symbolism, P.O.V and so on and as a class they fill them all out and talk about what they come up with. Afterwards my co-op will question their thinking and ask why they think what they think. The Lottery itself by Shirley Jackson had so much symbolism and metaphors that students read through it (after being told to read carefully), and they were able to use their devices during our discussion to look up names and dates that were in the Lottery because I told them everything has a reason for it being in the short story.

"Generally, he does not accept a single statement as an answer to a question" (34). My co-op also gives students examples of what a -c answer sounds like and what a -b answer sounds like also. He said you have to have the -c plus the -b answer and add more to give an -A answer. As I observe my co-op everyday, I notice that he is huge on quizzing and doing at least first part of major exams as part of a class assignment. I believe that he does a lot of group activities during his classes because he acknowledges that they all have different things to say about these short stories as to summarizing and taking in the main purpose of the piece and some of their thoughts  have similarities as the annotating process goes, but he wants to see unity, collaboration and sharing ideas. Instead of think-pair-share, he believes in pair-share-think.