Leading From The HeartWhat do you teach? Whether it be math, English, French, science, History, economics, computer science… are you allowing your students to use whatever tools they need to be successful? Are you allowing your students to use their own technology to learn? Are you allowing your students to record themselves (or you) with their phones or … Some essential questions for teachers.
I have a dirty little secret to share. Actually, I have a few. Dirty Secret #1 I don’t think video lessons are all that. When we talk of flipped classrooms we talk of having video that students can watch out of the classroom to free up clasroom time from the shackles of lecture and allow … My dirty secrets re: flipping the classroom
In everything. We can’t go around trying to do new things without someone to guide us. And we can’t go around asking people to try to do new things without ensuring the guidance is there for them: guidance that is offered in a way that respects us as learners, as people. challenge me to stand … Respectful guidance
Last night, at 10:39, I found out about the midnight deadline for applying to the Google Teacher Academy taking place in New York this October. How was it that I only clued into the application process in the, practically literally, 11th hour? That may have a little something to do with this kind of thing: … On Motivation. On Learning. In Ourselves.
Was reminded today…again…of the importance of good pedagogy. We can have fancy tools to bedazzle our students/parents/community with but if they aren’t being used in support of good pedagogy, they will remain a sideshow. So what is good pedagogy in an age where bedazzlement threatens to get in the way? Same as always – asking … Beware the bedazzlement