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Category Archives: Philosophy
Assess the Essence
(and a second session from the 5.25 inservice) With the move to get rid of “traditional exams” or “final tests,” there has been an exodus to “projects,” which term seems to mean many different things to many different people. Final … Continue reading
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Works in Translation
Awhile back, Ryan Bloom wrote an article in “The New Yorker” about what the first line in Camus’s The Stranger should be. I found it interesting and plausible (albeit long-winded). As my “Philosophy and Literature” class has been discussing “meaning” … Continue reading
“Close reading” aka “attention to detail”
A number of years ago, a colleague of mine from KIPP came to visit one of my classes (senior English) and was amazed that we spent an entire class period on one paragraph (I think it was a Borges story … Continue reading
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“The right questions”
Zizek (a contemporary philosopher in Slovenia) has an interesting video clip (quite short) that you can find here on the importance of asking good questions. While I think a better approach would be to talk about asking “good questions” as opposed … Continue reading
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Take-aways from 1.19.16 English class
You may remember that I made a Google form to ask students what the “major take-away” of the class was and what question(s) remained after the discussion. I give the responses below; at this point, I leave the lessons to … Continue reading
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Asking Questions redux (part deux)
Having talked about today’s class in the previous post, I thought I’d write about what I’m going to do tomorrow as follow-up. I’ll start with a two-question survey sometimes used in large college lecture courses (that I’ve occasionally used in … Continue reading
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Asking Questions redux
On an in-class prompt for a senior English class, one of the choices last week was “What is the most striking stylistic aspect of Calvino’s novel If on a winter’s night a traveler… and what is its effect on you as … Continue reading
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“Ask a teacher”
A confluence of events this week prompts this post. The first was an email about a workshop on “Advanced Geometry” that I’ll be going to in Santa Fe this sumer. The tagline for the meeting was The most common misconception … 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
Letters to a freshman
A friend of mine in his first year of college periodically writes to get my opinion on things he hears and talks about at college. He sent me a recent email questioning some statements from one of his courses. His … Continue reading
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