In a recent article listing twenty simple ideas for signaling Credibility to our students, one of the ideas was pretty indirect — watching someone else teach. How does this boost our credibility signal to students? Let’s begin handling that question by actually doing what it suggests — let’s watch someone who is good at teaching. […]
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Credibility Booster: Count Down
I was thinking the other day about how a simple little line on my whiteboard does a little credibility signal-sending for me on a regular basis. It’s this — a countdown to the AP exam that some of my ninth graders will be taking come May. But, it could also be… …a countdown to the […]
Credibility Booster: Fred’s Best Line
Sometimes I think the best PD I’ve ever had has been listening to re-runs of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood while taking road trips with my family. The man was the world’s first and greatest remote teacher. In my students’ language: he was a total pedagogical GOAT. And there’s one line that he says every episode that […]
Credibility Booster: MGCing the Whole Class in a Single Class Period
The other day I did something that seems to have blown some fresh air right into my heart and the hearts of my students. Basically, I MGCed the whole class during a 30-minute independent work segment of the lesson. Let me break it down. First of all, 30-minute independent work segments aren’t normal in my […]
Credibility Booster: Sharing Bits o’ Pedagogy
Once in a while, it’s smart to tell your students a bit of the thinking behind your lessons. Let me give a recent example from my practice and then close by explaining what I think things like this do for credibility. (For twenty more low-stress ideas for boosting that cred, click here.) Earlier this week, […]