Tag Archives: 21st century learning

Classroom: learning environment or management area?

The article linked here has a number of points to make that I think are worth discussing: https://georgecouros.ca/blog/archives/8112. I have discomfited people for years by maintaining that the role of a teacher is not “to teach” but to set up … Continue reading

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Unpersuasive writing about pedagogy…

Jennifer Barnett wrote in a blog for the Center for Teaching Quality about PBL and assessment.  In the course of her article, she says, “Do you want students who can spout facts and vocabulary for an assessment? Or do you … Continue reading

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A Modest Proposal 2018

I asked my Differential Equations class  (mostly seniors, some juniors) to review what I felt the course content (as opposed to the course process/pedagogy) had been this semester.  It was a list of “things they should be able to do” … Continue reading

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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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Student choice, teacher enjoyment

(At our inservice today, I presented two sessions.  Here are the notes I used for the first one) Power of Choice We all like choices, but as students get older, it can be harder to manage the process of giving … Continue reading

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“Learning the material”

I had a senior make a presentation to me in support of her request for an alternative for a final exam. She didn’t want to “come to school to take an exam after school was over.”  While I’m sympathetic to … Continue reading

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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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Cum grano salis

One of the things my Latin II class provided was a list of pithy sayings we had to memorize.  Some I’d never heard of at the tender age of 13, but I still remember a few, and one of them … Continue reading

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“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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“Guides on the side” still need to use teachable moments

There’s a slogan that purports to capture the essence of student-centric learning: teachers should be a “guide on the side” rather than the “sage on the stage.” But that shouldn’t mean they’re not teaching: they still need to teach, but … Continue reading

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