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A Teaching/Learning Lexicon: To Instruct, to Show, to Lead

Summary: A return to fundamental constructs of teaching and learning. All this talk about NCLB (last week’s post), and how directives from the feds may or may not be successful in steering the educational ship of state, leaves me wandering … Continue reading

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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

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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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