Learning is ‘persistence through failure’
As a second-year teacher of fifth-grade special education students, Mark Anderson often feels like a failure. He hasn’t mastered the “pedagogical and content master of all subject areas” or learned how...
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For an inventor, “failures are just problems that have yet to be solved,” writes John Dyson in Wired. It took 5,127 prototypes and 15 years to get his vacuum right. Dyson’s new engineering foundation...
View ArticleMy Favorite No
My Favorite No features the warm-up routine of an eighth-grade math teacher whose school couldn’t afford clickers. Student analyze what’s right and wrong about a classmate’s wrong answer. Alexander...
View ArticleParents, let your kids fail
Parents Need to Let Their Children Fail, writes Jessica Lahey in The Atlantic. Thirteen years ago, when I was a relatively new teacher, stumbling around my classroom on wobbly legs, I had to call a...
View ArticleTeaching the core — and social competence
California educators are trying to integrate social and emotional learning into Common Core Standards, reports EdSource Today. SACRAMENTO – School is nothing if not an intensely social experience,...
View ArticleTeaching ‘grit’
Teaching “grit” — resilience, persistence, conscientiousness — is the topic of an Education Week roundtable. Teaching non-cognitive skills blames the victim, writes Darnell Fine, a “multicultural...
View Article‘My favorite no’
In what she calls “my favorite no,” math teacher Leah Alcala shows students how to learn from mistakes.
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