Becoming Invisible In My Classroom
Becoming Invisible In My Classroomcontributed by Jane Healey“She doesn’t do anything. She gets paid to babysit us while we do all the work.”I overheard the middle school students in the orthodontist’s office describing their teacher who “flipped” the classroom, and...
How Learning In Your Classroom Is Different Than Learning In The Real-World
How Learning In Your Classroom Is Different Than Learning In The Real-Worldby Terry HeickQuick post with a basic premise: how are ‘school learning’ and ‘real world learning’ different?For now, we’re going to skip the more crucial...
Why We Should Make It Easier–Not Harder–To Be A Teacher
Why We Should Make It Easier–Not Harder–To Be A Teacherby Drew Perkins, Director of TeachThought PDRecently, I tweeted a reflection about the challenging nature of being a teacher.Because I like to be precise with my language and thinking it struck me that...
5 Mistakes I Made As A New Teacher
5 Mistakes I Made As A New Teacherby Robyn JacksonI’ve been talking to teachers lately about creating an environment in their classrooms where students are free to make mistakes and supported in learning from their mistakes. I argue that learning from mistakes can be...
10 Ways Traditional Classrooms Punish Mistakes In Learning
contributed by Miriam CliffordThe greatest mistake I ever made in my education was failing a physics course at Cornell. I opted to take an auto-tutorial class that did not require calculus because I was afraid to make math errors. Up until this point, I had never...
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