Posts Tagged “teaching”
I am substitute teaching this week. Sixth-graders. I haven’t taught sixth-grade in quite a while. But after two days, I remember now. The curiosity, the energy, the silliness. That I would arrive home every evening and say, “I love sixth-graders.” And my dad would say, “You’re lucky. Not many people get up every day to [...]
Are you someone who likes to ponder? Think about both sides of an issue? Wonder why something has occurred? Don’t we all? Then why don’t we ask this of our students? Why do we tend toward direct instruction so much of the time? True, if learning content is our goal, direct instruction is faster, more [...]
Spinning
By scm | August 18, 2009
I must be ADHD. Really. Today, during my first day back at school, I rearranged the furniture instead of cleaning off the bookshelves; played with my new HP mini when I should be have been organizing my files; ate some Gummi Bears; cut through the library to go copy something and ended up talking about [...]