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Category Archives: Creativity
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
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
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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Student and teacher learning
My senior English class is reading Italo Calvino’s If on a winter’s night a traveler and I’ve assigned sections to various people to present. Listening today, I was struck by a couple of things: what the students pick out as “important” … Continue reading
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“Curving tests”
I had a colleague opine yesterday that if you have to curve a test, it’s not a good test. I would say that’s only true if your goal is to write a test that doesn’t need curving. If you have … Continue reading
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Teaching and Training – 1
I’ve been thinking recently about the difference between teaching and training. Some of you may be familiar with my occasional idea that there’s not really any such thing as “teaching” in the sense teachers are supposed to do: there are … Continue reading
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Not a history teacher…
During a discussion with a colleague yesterday, I was asked what my goal was for a new elective that she and I will be proposing this fall for next year. I said, “to get students to see that race is … Continue reading
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Wonder Lab
The Chicago meeting referenced before was actually pretty good. Most of the sessions were interesting, and we went to a design firm for two hours on Friday to be led through some really cool exercises on designing a “Wonder Lab” … Continue reading
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What are your interests and aspirations for next year?
In response to that question from one of my dept heads, after much thought I finally sent the following response. It is somewhat overstated and deliberately provocative in the hope that even motivating people to say, “That’s crap!” would be … Continue reading
Tapestry
In response to a post by Brian Bennett: http://www.brianbennett.org/blog/bunching-vs-wrapping/ I wrote: Thinking of teaching as a tapestry is a great imagery. You take different threads and bring them together, some here for one part of the design, others disappear for awhile … Continue reading
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