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Sharing Gratitude for Podcast Guest Appearances
I’m always game to talk about education – about pedagogical methods, about the “Why” behind what we do, how things might be changed for improvement, and anything else. Because I’ve been meeting less with my curriculum team and middle school … Continue reading
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Tagged conversation, curricula, curricular development, curriculum, Curriculum Design, discussion, education, guest appearances, integrated studies, integrative studies, interdisciplinary, interdisciplinary studies, learning, mastery learning, mastery teaching, pedagogy, pod, podcasts, questionandanswer, student-centered learning, student-centered teaching, student-led learning, student-led teaching, Teaching
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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
Are you ready for probable school closures? If schools remain open, are you prepared for that, too? We teachers must be ready for both eventualities. I wrote a concerned email to a supervisor earlier this summer expressing my worry that … 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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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
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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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