Leading From The HeartPart of my job, no. Most of my job has me thinking about Professional Development. Today it has me wondering about how much others think about it. As a teacher, how much importance do you place on PD? Is it something you do because it is part of your yearly schedule or is it something … Professional Development – some questions and thoughts
click on the image for source…and for a post on student questioning from Inquire Within. What 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 record themselves (or you) with … Here are some questions for you…
Watch this video and ask yourself: Do I know this teacher? Am I this teacher? And then ask: How can I guide or be guided through the shift towards improved student-learning? In the video I say that the answer is simple – just shift a la ‘just do it’ mentality but in reality the shift … Guidance through the shift
…or chocolate covered broccoli. However you want to call it, it’s disguising something with something else to try to make it more appealing. We might try it once, even twice, but pretty soon, once we’ve licked off the chocolate we’ll recognize the core of the thing for what it is**. Basically we should “Make the … Brussel sprout ice cream cone…
You teach a resistant teacher the same way you teach a resistant and disinterested and disengaged student. By engaging them, by challenging them, by making sure they have fun, and giving them ownership of their own learning will bring back even a hardened student to the class. Eric Pollack wrote this, as a comment to … Remembering the human (in teachers, too)