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- How to REALLY be Prepared for the 2020-2021 School Year 2020/08/17
- Teacher to Teacher: A Letter to a Naively Racist and Classist Younger Me 2020/08/13
- The Bomb, Duck-and-Cover Drills, and You (today, right now) 2020/08/11
- A Two-Track-Option Approach to Teaching and Learning 2020/07/20
- …on what is called “deep learning” 2020/06/24
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Nothing Went as Planned, and Everything Will Be Okay: A(nother) 2020 Experience
All we can do is the best we can do, and it’s okay not to be okay. This week, as is the case so many places across the country, our school had a surprise shutdown on the occasion of a … Continue reading
How to REALLY be Prepared for the 2020-2021 School Year
Challenge and Solution # 1 Challenge “I have been doing this for years / I’ve been training to teach a certain way. I can’t rely on that training/experience and have everything ready to go for online and in-person contexts.” Solution … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Teaching Memos
Tagged AMLE, AMLE20, course design, COVID, COVID-19, COVID19, Curricular Design, curriculum, Curriculum Design, Flexibility, learning, pedagogical approach, pedagogy, Personalization, personalized learning, philosophical shift, teacher, teachers, Teaching
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Teacher to Teacher: A Letter to a Naively Racist and Classist Younger Me
Steve, I’m here to address a problem that you’re going to want to dismiss as soon as you hear it. I’ll cut to the chase. When people talk about systemic racism, you are a part of the system perpetrating the … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, Teaching Memos
Tagged classism, classist, education, education system, educational system, elitism, ideology, racism, racist, systemic racism, Teaching, teaching all students
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A Two-Track-Option Approach to Teaching and Learning
We can give students most comfortable with predictability and control over tight scheduling one track/option that suits their needs, and we can give students who prefer a flexible, thinking-skill-driven, personalized learning experience that choice as a second track. Continue reading
Posted in Education, Teaching Memos
Tagged choice and voice, critical thinking skill teaching, learning, mastery, mastery-based teaching, pedagogical practice, pedagogical strategies, pedagogy, personal learning, personalized learning, skill-based teaching, skill-mastery teaching, student centered teaching, student choice, student voice, student-centered teaching, Teaching, two-track teaching, voice
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