we “find” evidence to support the decision we have already made anyway, and apply less rigorous judgment when our preconceptions are apparently confirmed.
Not every point is uniformly evident across the school irrespective of teacher, class and time (yet), but most are well on the way. Learning in our school has changed enormously… and is constantly changing. Is yours?
Good communication is central to good education, and teachers have long since been aware of the importance of teaching students how and when to use various language forms and to what purpose. With the use of Web 2.0 tools, the various forms and purposes of language use are clearly evident as they are central to actual tool choice.
increasingly clear to me that the less I teach, the more my students are actually learning
I Resign From Teaching
I have carefully constructed learning questions and activities for each student. The students are working collaboratively with each other on differentiated learning activities and producing a variety of evidence
key to teaching new literacy skills is to change the focus of student writing.
the value of a written essay lies not in its format but in the skills students develop: identify a thesis, research and analyze evidence to test the thesis, and then present the analysis results.
Why must these skills be confined to a written format?
most successful teachers are those who have managed to find ways of harnessing students’ ways of insights into their own learning in order to help the teachers do a better job of teaching.
There is evidence, however, the slow death of exams is not simply a sympathetic response to quivering students, but to new science around cognition, which suggests the traditional high-stress, all-or-nothing final exam under gymnasium floodlights may not be an accurate measure of learning.