education
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Adolescent and Adult Decision-making Processes
When we look at our students, we can see all sorts of choices being made that make little sense to us, unless we look back to some of the choices we made when we were students, choices that may seem foolish to us now. According to R. Kail et al’s Human Development: A Life-Span View,… Continue reading
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Mean ’til Hallowe’en: Classroom Discipline and the First Day of the Semester
Yesterday I attended a small workshop, given by three members of my faculty, on classroom practices and strategies. It was an informal round-table discussion, in which each speaker spent about twenty minutes talking about some of the things they do to make their classroom a productive learning space. There were a lot of suggestions that… Continue reading
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what our students know for sure
This list gives some important reminders about where our students are coming from. Incidents in the class confirm daily that our world view doesn’t always match a seventeen-year-old’s (the day I made a “Seinfeld” reference that no one got was a sad one.) Remembering some of these points might help us be a little less… Continue reading
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cheating and moral development: an aside
Here’s a post that discusses some of our underlying psychological programming where cheating is concerned, and the most productive actions and attitudes societies can take to control it. Continue reading
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learning happens here
An inspiring post on creating and fostering an optimal learning environment. Continue reading
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changing it up
At the end of this article is a list of ways to switch things up when you start depending too much on one approach. As someone who spends far too much time on study questions/group work, I’m always grateful for suggestions on how to do things a little differently. Continue reading
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caring, schmaring: addendum
For some other thoughts on the importance of caring for students (albeit, more on the huggy/smiley side), visit this post. Continue reading
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can’t get enough blogs about education?
Here’s a list of the “top 100.” (Found this on this site.) Continue reading
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how to fix the schools
I love the idealism of this post about revamping the school system from the blog “Sees, Shoots and Leaves.” It stirs up an old longing I have to be a governess in charge of three or four children’s education, with the resources and time to allow each of them to progress at their own rate… Continue reading
About Me
My job is to teach people to read and write; aside from that, I like to learn things.
Classroom as Microcosm 