In my latest post for Fusion, I wrote about some of the common misconceptions that teachers have about managing behavior, and gave suggestions for alternatives. You can read all about here. Here are some of my other articles on Fusion: The 7 E’s of Classroom Design 9 Great Ways to Encourage Students to Ask Questions … Read more
For some of us, that is. Giant panda, Bao Bao, for example, thoroughly enjoys the weather that, depending on your location, might shut down your entire city. Most educators aren’t opposed to a snow day every once in awhile. What we dread more are those “Indoor Recess” days that can sometimes last for weeks. GoNoodle has … Read more
Since many people are returning to school during the next couple of weeks, I thought I would re-visit and share some of last year’s more successful projects in case you want to try one. Today’s post is about something I tried last year with the goal of impressing upon my students how much they … Read more
On Monday’s post, I told the story of my year as a “poser” – pretending that I was a mathematical genius during my 9th grade year in Algebra 1. Miraculously, this inadvertent deception resulted in inspiring great confidence in my abilities on the part of my teacher. Subsequently, her faith made me see myself in … Read more
“Instead of asking students what they want to be, we should be asking them who they want to be.” I wish I could give attribution for the above quote. It was something I saw on Twitter a few weeks ago, and it resonated with me. The film called, “The Science of Character” delivers a similar … Read more
As you may have gathered from yesterday’s “Flappy Bird” post, I am trying very hard to maintain a Growth Mindset, and to foster this thinking in my daughter and students. One of my favorite bloggers, Sonya Terborg, also talks about encouraging a Growth Mindset in her classroom. One of her ideas, in this post, … Read more