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Category Archives: group work
Teaching 2015 (review)
Below is a set of notes to myself at the start of the last school year. The start of this year seems an appropriate time to review them. This document is an attempt to put together some things I know … Continue reading
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“learning to learn”
A number of us, and I think the School as a whole, say that one of our major goals is to “have students learn how to learn.” IF such is the case, then it occurred to me a number of … 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
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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The best way to predict the future
is to invent it. Great title from an article I haven’t even read yet, but I definitely agree with the sentiment. And given the nostalgia that’s been generated today as I clean out old files, scan in old student papers … 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
Perspective shift
So, a great deal of thought and blogspace, even time at conferences, goes into such topics as “PBL” (problem-based learning), “STEM” (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics”, and “21st-century learning” (which is either self-evident or means so many different things to … Continue reading
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Reading, writing, and understanding
I’m trying something a bit different in senior English today. As I started writing some questions on the board for them to answer, one of my students said, “We have to discuss this reading before we get assessed on it. … Continue reading
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Group work
We keep hearing that school should involve students in more “real-world” situations (or prepare them for such, at least). I am of mixed minds about the basic premise, particularly as it applies to group work. However, I am nonetheless continuing … Continue reading
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