Monthly Archives: May 2015

“Looking up” and “learning”

There’s a lot of talk around (mostly by consultants and bloggers, but still…) about the “looking up” vs “learning” approach to teaching.  It seems to me there are three basic approaches to this question (albeit a large number of shadings … Continue reading

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Panthers

Panthers In order to help me keep my resolution to be educationally bold next year, I’m forming what might more professionally be called a professional learning committee (but which might also be considered my personal support group).  It’s a group … Continue reading

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Teaching 2015 (1)

I was inspired yesterday by going to see the actual furniture I’ll have in my “innovative classroom” next fall.  As a result, I decided to put down some thoughts on how I’ll bring to my teaching some of the innovations … Continue reading

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Collaborative learning (aka “group work”)

A very interesting piece from an NAIS blogger on cooperative learning. http://www.nais.org/Independent-Ideas/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=419 My experience was the opposite of that of the author of the blog.  As a science major, I had lab partners from Middle School through graduate school, and … Continue reading

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