Posts Tagged ‘learning’

Danger! Is your school an “Assembly Line” school?

This morning I played tennis with a friend of mine in his seventies, and we observed that the way many classrooms function hasn’t changed much since he was a student. In the meantime, the way we generate, sort, analyze, distribute and share information has changed dramatically. Likewise, the tools we possess to communicate with each
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No more cookie-cutter teaching!

Nothing frustrates me more than lazy, old-fashioned cookie-cutter teaching. I’m talking about teachers who stand up and lecture, who have one strategy and one strategy only for getting students to learn, and who care more about doing things their way than helping kids learn. I’m also talking about administrators and school boards that tolerate –
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