TEACH

Give me the tongue of a teacher that I may comfort the weary with a word. All things related to learning and teaching. Encourage other teachers and learners with words of wisdom and personal insights.
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Starting Over

Each year a new grade, a new curriculum, a new set of students. We must take courage and start anew.

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Writing the scriptures and adding personal examples to make connections to the key ideas is a great teaching tool. And this writing is best done by hand, not computer. Brain scans show the improvement teachers see in their students. Researchers put 256 sensors into a hairnet...See more

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A quote from: Learn Laugh Teach on FB · "TEACHERS, THIS ONE IS FOR YOU. Teaching is one of those jobs that rarely stays at work. You leave the building, but part of your mind stays in the classroom. You’re thinking about the student who seemed unusually quiet today. The lesson...See more

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A researcher at Williams College set out to study variations in curiosity across elementary school classrooms. She had to abandon the study. The problem was not funding or methodology. As researcher Susan Engel later noted, there was such an astonishingly low rate of curiosity in...See more

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"One begins to suspect that a great many students wanted this all along: to make it through college unaltered, unscathed. To be precisely the same person at graduation, and after, as they were on the first day they arrived on campus. As if the whole experience had never really happened at all." If teaching is not transformative it is not good teaching, is it? https://thewalrus.ca/i-used-to-teach-students-now-i-catch-chatgpt-cheats

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Give me the tongue of a teacher that I may comfort the weary with a word. All things related to learning and teaching. Encourage other teachers and learners with words of wisdom and personal insights.