101 Things I’ve Learned So Far In Teaching
From knowing your own biases and modeling mistake-making, here are 101 teaching tips and things I’ve learned so far about teaching.
Teaching Google Natives To Value Information
Digital natives–students born into our digital, connected world—have always had Google to bail them out. And maybe that’s okay.
8 Common Grading Mistakes Most Teachers Should Avoid
Our system of letter grades is a lot of work for teachers and punishes some students. Here are 8 grading mistakes teachers should avoid.
Why All Ed Reform Fails
In ed reform, we train our sights on the wrong targets, hoping to improve curriculum, assessment & schools via plans, policy & standards.
Digital Learning Is Just Different
Digital learning is different than non-digital learning from the moment an experience starts. It’s not better or worse–just different.
What If Every Teacher Tweeted?
Like every teacher must translate their knowledge and personality into a kind of “voice” and personality, it’s not much different on twitter.
A(n Insufficent) Reading List To Help Students Begin To Grapple With Race
I thought it might be useful to share a reading list that might help students begin to grapple and make sense of race relations in the US.
Is It Time For Dumb Goals In Education?
This reductive approach extends to industrialized practices of grouping, scheduling, and packaging of students, curriculum, & performance.
Transforming Education Starts In Your Classroom
Want To Transform Education? Start In Your Classroom. by Terry Heick If it’s a standards-based, outcomes-based, institutionally-centered (and nationally participative) game we want, you’d be hard-pressed to find a better combination than Understanding by Design units (i.e., Wiggins) anchored around power standards (e.g., Strong, Silver, Perini, Dufour) that are then delivered through differentiated instruction (i.e.,…
The Paradox Of The Modern Teacher
23 propositions in an attempt to etch out the paradox of the modern teacher.
What Are You Going To Do To Inspire Students?
Resistance to ‘school work’ isn’t new, but if students literally—en masse—aren’t inspired to learn, why aren’t we more concerned?
What Students Will Learn: 8 Responsive Content Areas Of The Future
This doesn’t mean we won’t teach math or reading in the future. However, we might reframe what we teach and how and why we teach it.
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