Dear colleague, During my most recent workshops in South Dakota, Michigan, and Colorado, I tried to emphasize a simple point: a great teaching strategy should accomplish not just one of your objectives as a teacher but rather many of them simultaneously. In a job as complex and demanding as teaching, we’re after maximum bang for…
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Dear colleague, In The Will to Learn, I introduced a strategy called Tracking Attempted Moments of Genuine Connection (MGCs). I’ve covered MGCs extensively elsewhere on the blog (the most comprehensive treatment can be found here), so today I won’t repeat that work. Instead, I’d like to share with you some practical things I’ve noticed this…
Dear colleague, The other day, I received a text message from the ever-enthusiastic and always-growing educator Mr. David T. Reese. (He wrote a guest blog several years ago that you can read right here.) David said, I’m not the boss of you; however, I think it’d be pretty cool if you did an ‘all call’…
Continue Reading All Call: What Are You Woodenizing Right Now?
Dear colleague, Tomorrow begins the 20th year of my teaching career, and as of this moment’s rosters (sure to change still), I’ve got 153 human beings that I’ll be getting to know in the weeks to come. (One of them, it turns out, is the child of a former student. I knew the day was…
…is Pop-Up Debates. The format is so simple: I give a prompt. E.g.: What was the most interesting thing we studied in Unit 3? Who is the most underrated character in the novel we just read? Students spend a few minutes writing about it. Once we start the debate: Every student has to speak at…
Continue Reading My Absolute Favorite Single Teaching Strategy…
…creating an environment in which student behaviors are conducive to enjoyable and productive learning experiences. Enjoyable and productive: that’s the key framing language to use with students. You have your rules and procedures and management moves not because you like controlling young people, but rather because you are so darn in love with enjoyable and…