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Working Hard vs. The Joy of Learning
Last July, I read (and blogged about) about a powerful study about the positive effects of praising children for their effort instead of praising them for being smart. This year, as a result, I have...
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Paradigm-Shifting Questions
I just finished The Homework Myth, an intriguing book in which Alfie Kohn makes the claim that homework, with just a few exceptions, should be eliminated. In that book, Kohn includes a chapter...
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Favorite Elementary Read-Aloud Books
In the spring of every school year, I am also looking to try some new read-aloud books, since I’ve already read my absolute favorites to the students. I’ll divide my favorite books into 4 categories:...
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Demystifying Math
Let me expand on yesterday’s post about a poorly written math standard in Michigan, because that standard is just one way in which we make math much more inaccessible than it should be. Take...
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Does Class Size Matter?
Here’s an interesting situation: in my school, we’re going to be cutting one section out of our third grade, going from four teachers down to three. The reason is not what you’d expect (budget cuts),...
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Everything Lasts Too Long
I’m convinced that human beings learn more in the first few minutes of something (no matter what that “thing” happens to be) than at any other time. As I sat in church listening to a half-hour sermon...
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Why Is Educational Technology So Far Behind?
Money obviously commands more attention that children do. At least that’s certainly what it looks like as we take a stroll around the Internet. When I go to Amazon.com, the site knows me. It...
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Merit Pay for Teachers
I’ve written many times in the past about classroom community, and in those posts I’ve always been talking about classroom climate in terms of how the students and teacher interact. There’s a second...
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Was That a Good Lesson?
I have a wonderful student teacher this semester. Seeing her experiences in her student-teaching classes inspired this satirical post… ————————————————————————– HOW TO TELL IF YOUR LESSON WAS A...
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What Did You Teach This Week?
This week, I taught my students a lot of stuff. In math class, we finished our work with the multiplication facts… just in time to segue into working with the basic division facts. In language arts, I...
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Resource: TheMathFacts.com
If you teach elementary math and employ paper/pencil timed tests, you’ve got to check out www.themathfacts.com. TheMathFacts.com offers online timed tests that are automatically scored and...
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Working Hard vs. The Joy of Learning
Last July, I read (and blogged about) about a powerful study about the positive effects of praising children for their effort instead of praising them for being smart. This year, as a result, I have...
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