I wrote this article back in the mid nineties. I came across it the other day and found that even in the re-reading, it challenged my thinking. For that reason alone, I invite you to consider some of the ideas presented in this blog. I’d love to hear your thoughts. *** One of the educationa [...]
In my seminars, I often talk about the special difficulties faced by middle school students and the issues that middle school teachers must be aware of and deal with. As an advocate of positive discipline, I appreciated Shaun Martin's thoughts on offering specific praise to our middle school student [...]
I recently suggested that a colleague use a Jigsaw approach to cover reading material with his college students. After hearing about how successful the strategy was for him, I realized that the Jigsaw is one of those easy and effective teaching strategies that is also vastly under utilized. While I [...]
Art teachers Ondre Pettingill and Guy Wymore, from Rockwell Charter High School, talk about the value of technology tools like the Elmo projector. They also validate the value of doodling and drawing to focus attention when Ondre shows off his drawing of me, done during the morning of our seminar. I [...]
Nineteen examples of good writing advice gone bad