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Unanswered
Just because a student doesn't give me an answer doesn't mean they don't have an answer. As a teacher, I see my job as creating an environment and…
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Behavior Instruction
You would never make a student who struggles with reading clip down or lose a ticket if they didn’t read something correctly. It doesn’t make any sense. …
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PD Checklists
If professional development is focused more on the how than the why than it’s very likely that checking off the checklist that outlines the how will be seen by…
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Point at the Process
When a student is not doing his work teachers, generally speaking, say one of two things. They will say to themselves, “He’s not doing his work!” or “This…
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Teaching Tasks
If we teach things without a clear why, what we are essentially doing is teaching tasks. For instance, if we believe we are teaching opinion writing to learn…
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Sharing Fuels Sharing
It's simple. Sharing fuels sharing. The more my students share, the more my students want to share. The more my students share the more my students learn, think…
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But I Wanted A Horse
It’s often said that there are no mistakes in art. But it’s not really true. If a student wants to draw say… a horse but their horse…
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THE Creative Processes
There really is no such thing as THE creative process. Everyone’s creative process is different. Essentially, we have models and examples of creative processes. Read any…
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The Monet Lesson
We can learn a lot about Monet, the Impressionist painter, and about Impressionism, the painting movement that Monet led around 1880 or so. We can learn, for instance,…
