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Many Years of School Reform: A Veteran Teacher Reflects on Changes in Kids and the Classroom
The attention span of young kids in particular has shortened, both in the intellectual and physical sense, over the duration of Ticia’s career. Roughly 50% of kids need to be moving all the time – feet, bodies, hands, fingers — whereas at the beginning of Ticia’s working life compulsive movement described perhaps only one or two out of a class of 30. This is one category of school measurement where boys have continued to reign supreme. Continue reading
Teaching/Learning Lexicon: “Explain” and “Guide”
Summary: This post extends the “Lexicon” of teaching and learning introduced 8/23/11. It may be useful to review that post before diving into what follows….. Here be the introductory paragraph from the 8/23/11 post, which sets the groundwork for this … Continue reading
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Tagged guide students, introduce new material, learning, teaching
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Teaching/Learning Lexicon: A Paradoxical Implementation
Though my last post, “Teaching/Learning Lexicon: An Introduction”, was some part whimsy and some part semantic history, at my high school the concepts in that last piece are embodied, paradoxically, in a data driven effort by our ninth and tenth … Continue reading
A Teaching/Learning Lexicon: Introduction
More by whimsy at first, but later by design, a number of years ago I began examining the derivations of words such as “teach”, and “learn”, and followed their origins into associations themselves derived from my experience teaching, and from … Continue reading
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Tagged learning, meet student where he is, student motivation, teaching
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