Leading From The HeartI’ve been looking through my archives as a result of redesigning my blog over the weekend and saw a few posts about different flavours-of-the-month from years past. What I wrote in one post about PLCs (remember them?) from 2007 still resonates in me today but as I was link-checking to make sure the links still … Flavour-of-the-month: Get your red-hot PD here…but not for long!
The title of this post is shamelessly stolen from Michael Doyle. Go find it in the post I stole it from. Michael always puts things in perspective. Especially at this time of year but not only, it is in our gentle acts of caring that the brilliance of our teaching shines through. 1, 2, 5, … What matters is caring every moment we have.
In a recent conversation on LinkedIn, a commenter wrote: Teachers do not fear being ‘replaced’ by computers. That is a 1980 ‘s idea that has never gone away. I’d like to look at that fear. Is that really just an old wives tale? To a certain extent I believe that there are teachers who do … Addressing the ICT elephant in the room
What do you think they would say if we asked them what their best teachers did (or do) to help them learn? (Inspired by Steven W. Anderson.)
In yesterday’s post about oral assessment, I commented that “…the very act of talking with our students helps us to see them. To really see them as people, as learners, as individuals in our classrooms.” On Friday, Marc Prensky talked about the notion of ‘cellophane kids‘, a term used to describe how teachers look through … Unwrapping the cellophane