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Ode to Office Supplies: Post-It Notes
It’s been a few weeks since I last sang the praises of a particular office supply (the Moleskine, read the post here) so today I thought I’d tackle the ubiquitous and versatile post-it note. Here are...
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The Most Important 10 Minutes of Your Class Time
In my first years of teaching, I often felt unsure at the end of each lesson. Did the students learn? Was my lesson good? But I remember one lesson where I thought I had totally and completely...
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“Why American Students Can’t Write”
This week The Atlantic began a series looking at the question of why students in the US struggle to write coherent sentences. Contributors include experts such as writing guru Lucy Calkins, Erin...
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Popular Pedagogy: Project-Based Learning
Recently there has been a buzz around both flipped instruction (where students are exposed to material at home via online content before practicing in class) as well as project based learning (PBL). I...
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What to do with a half day? Symposium!
Does your school have those quirky days where students come for just the morning? Do half days pop-up just before a holiday break or for extended professional development in the afternoons? At my...
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The Teaching Test: Feedback, Reflection, & Movin’ On
I recognize the critical role standards and high-stakes testing have played in bringing educational accountability to schools that failed communities year after year. However state assessments do not...
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How much time should students get?
There is a short but interesting post over at Education Week that considers the question of how much time students should have on exams and assignments. The teacher essentially argues students should...
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Listening to Our Students
A visual representation of what a group of teenagers at a Imagining Learning event wanted their education to look like. I have noticed a theme in this week’s posts: Listening to students. First in the...
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Ditch the lecture (or 8 tips to do it better)
You have likely heard that people only remember 20% of what they hear (which may be a rubbish statistic) and we all, theoretically, understand lecturing is a generally ineffective way to teach pretty...
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Transform Your Classroom: Assign a Research Paper
At a time when our students can access information with the click of a button or the swipe of a finger we must dedicate our classrooms to evaluation and synthesis in place of traditional memorization....
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