Students need all kinds of teachers.
- The extroverts who bring energy.
- The introverts who lead with quiet thoughtfulness.
- The serious teachers who bring structure and focus.
- The silly teachers that put students in a state of relaxed alertness.
- The spontaneous teachers who model a creative spirit.
- The organized teachers who bring clarity and consistency.
Part of education is learning how to work with, learn from, and relate to people who are different from ourselves.
@notheydontcare You clearly have no idea how education works. State assessments have no bearing on a high school student's life. There is absolutely no motivation to do well. Class grades matter!
The genius of great teaching lies in its simplicity.
The tragedy of modern education is how complex we’ve made it.
To be truly great, a teacher must resist the noise of fads, trends, and buzzwords—and return to the art of simplifying everything.
The Integrated Boys rocked the Trebuchet build this year. Three meter launch over a meter tall castle wall with some height restraints. Excited for the semester.
Almost a decade into my education career, I’m starting to notice that nothing angers people quite like actually educating children well
Good education requires standards, accountability, hard decisions, disappointment at times even
Mediocrity, however, offends none
Re: grade inflation:
You can care about a student and still give them the grade they earned. In fact, care demands it.
Grades that reward effort over outcome may feel kind in the moment, but they don’t prepare students for anything outside the classroom. Sooner or later, real life asks for results.
My last reason why I think grades improved so much this year
Cheating
They don't do their classwork in class. Maybe they don't even have their heads up. But a few days later, they are getting A's and Bs on those assignments. They bomb the tests and we can't give less than 50%