When we focus on teaching, we might ask:
1-What will I teach?
2-What resources will I choose?
3-What work will I give?
Focusing on learning, we ask:
1-What will they learn?
2-How will they create evidence of learning?
3-How will they evaluate their learning?
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Here's an obvious secret:
If we're not passionate, energetic & having fun while we're teaching, then the kids won't be while there's learning.
We can't expect from them what we don't exude ourselves.
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“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
Teaching children how to regulate their emotions is crime prevention.
It’s addiction prevention.
It’s the path to a world where people can disagree, and still respect each other.
How often does “Explain your answer"/"Show your work” in math assessments just ask students to recite an algorithm rather than demonstrating real understanding? For that matter, how much of what preceded the assessment involved constructing meaning rather than mere memorization?
The first deck in Addition and Subtraction by Heart II focuses on adding within 20 and uses 10 frames as the visual representation. For the first few times students see a card, they can move around the counters. Learn more at https://t.co/dP6YfQENRD
Yes, and I propose that it challenges even those of us who didn't struggle with memorizing.
Treating math facts as a disconnected set to memorize reduces math.
Let's open math through structure!
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The kids are here!
Remember, they are not:
SPED kids
EIP kids
RTI kids
Bad kid
504 kids
"Those" kids
Low kids
_____ kids.
Kids are kids.
First, love them
Then learn them.
We don't love labels.
We love learners.
We teach learners, not labels.
Love, believe & challenge ALL kids.
There are only 2 problems with using tests to assess learning: Right answers often don’t reflect real understanding, and wrong answers often don’t reflect the absence of understanding.
(Because the kind of learning tests are designed to assess isn't really about understanding.)
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