Has this ever happened to you…you prepare a manipulatives-based lesson, explain the expectations to your students, pass out all the materials, and then they choose to play around with the manipulatives instead of using them to show their math thinking? Or is it just me???
As you look at a newborn, have you wondered when babies start learning, or pondered the purpose of the early days and weeks when a baby spends most of their waking hours in search of a bottle or breast for feeding? The answers may surprise
It is not uncommon to feel a mix of emotions as we get closer to the start of a new year, and this is especially true with new teachers. The educational terrain has been a bit rugged (to say the least) and yet they courageously
As you embark on your new year of teaching, it’s important to reflect on how to pace yourself and avoid burnout. As a more than thirty year veteran of teaching middle school science, I always characterized teaching as “all encompassing”--so I get it. Being passionate
I’d been circulating listening to small groups work on a problem-solving task when I looked up at the clock. 15 minutes left! Our whole-class discussion would have to be brief. Should I take the reins and share my own solution for efficiency? I called everyone
Develop an Asset-Based Approach to Partnering with Families By Tyrone Howard The work of equity-informed school-family partnerships must operate from an asset-based perspective where school personnel see families, parents, and caregivers as possessing essential knowledge about how to best support their children. Asset-based approaches also recognize the
We know that a tree is only as strong as its roots. It is the strength of the root system that tethers a tree to the earth and gives it the strength to weather fierce winds. We would argue the same goes for leadership development.
What can the Visible Learning database (www.visibiblelearningmetax.com) tell us about improving learning outcomes for students who are learning more than one language? With our colleagues John Hattie and Oscar Corrigan, we reviewed the evidence to answer this very question. There are a wide range of
I’ve been a math teacher long enough to have lost count of the number of times someone has told me, “I’m bad at math.” Early on, I was shocked by the confessions and caught off-guard by the strength of the conviction with which these words