Beginnings, and their educational importance
“You know that the beginning is the most important part of any work, especially in the case of a young …
Tag Archives: education
The break-things-into-bits mistake we have been making in education for centuries – happening today with standards
In the just-released Math Publisher’s Criteria document on the Common Core Standards, the authors say this about (bad) curricular decision-making: …
Dereliction of duty by HS teachers
From a recent Ed Week article: A survey by ACT finds that 89 percent of high school teachers report their …
How do you plan? On templates and instructional planning
How teachers plan – I think this is one of the more interesting ‘black boxes’ in education. There are few …
On Feedback: 13 practical examples per your requests
As readers may know, my article on feedback in the September edition of Educational Leadership has been one of the …
History Teaching, part 2: the new AP US History Framework
In my last post I mused on the difficult challenge of teaching history. I want to follow it with a …
