I’ve been on enough runs that I know a good one within the first couple of steps. I know whether my breathing is labored or whether it feels like my legs are stuck in molasses. When either of these things are off, then I know that the run is going to be one that I …
In preparing for a seminar for youth on social media, I have hit a brick wall. This is not uncommon, I often hit a brick wall in preparing to teach something new, especially when technology is involved; however, in this case I am stuck in the middle. I have no idea if my students will …
An interesting read on the evolution of education analyzing where we started: In terms of human evolution, formal education arrived quite late to the party. For millennia, young Homo sapiens essentially educated themselves: They observed, they imitated, they played, they tried, and they erred. The world around them was their classroom. And where we got …
This is why I don’t go to teacher conferences anymore. Why wait?
Wow. If schools held teachers and administrators to the same expectations, there’d be a lot of job openings: In March, one student started fiddling with her device at the front of the class while in the middle of an acrobatic half-moon pose, MSNBC reports. Although Van Ness didn’t say anything to the student, she did give …
What happens when teachers lose their inspiration? But it can’t be good news that a survey of teachers released in March by MetLife found the lowest job satisfaction numbers since 1989, with just 44 percent of respondents describing themselves as “very satisfied” with their classroom careers, down from 59 percent in 2009 and 62 percent …
Writing isn’t entering an unknown world. Even in futuristic societies and the unknown worlds of Ender’s Games and Hunger Games, there is a connection that readers can make to the experiences the characters are having and the way that they are relating to one another. Rosenblatt calls this a “living through” experience that enables readers …
What we often teach students is to work hard so that they can go to college and get a good job, but what about this: High unemployment is hurting many young people as they languish without developing job skills. The United States added just 80,000 jobs in June, the Labor Department reported on Friday: This amount is …
Buried in this article full of great statics, I found this image: Does this classroom look much different? As a visual learner, I appreciate the graphic, but I am not sure that it looks that much different than the classroom I attended school. For me, that’s disappointing. With the innovation that surrounds us every day, …
And yet another podcast on the same idea: Confidence is knowing you can do something well. Courage is trying something that you aren’t sure what the outcome will be. If the Cowardly Lion can sing in a costume with curls and ribbons, then surely I can face the possibility of the uncertainty of what lies …
