My daughter's last day of high school was today. In her senior English class, her teacher had all of them sit on the floor and said "You start off in kindergarten sitting on a rug for story time, and I thought you could finish that way, too." Then she proceeded to sit on a chair and read them the book "Oh the Places You'll Go."
CONAN AT HARVARD: “No university in our nation has produced more Nobel laureates or white collar criminals… so whether you choose good or evil, know that you are among the very best.”
Here’s a teaching idea that has helped me.
Think of a problem in your classroom. Then sit down and write about it.
But write without the constraints of educational “mumbo jumbo.”
Stop trying to sound educated, and start writing like a human.
Write without jargon. And please, for the sake of your mind, ditch the acronyms.
Just pretend YOU are the expert in the room.
Rely on your own experiences and think through the problem from first principles.
Ask yourself: What am I actually seeing? What do I think would help? What is a creative or practical solution?
Then write.
You might discover that your most useful ideas don’t come from a framework or a buzzword, they come from paying attention, reflecting honestly, and trusting your own observations.
In fact, the freshest solutions for your classroom are probably buried beneath layers of pedagogical clutter in your head.
Simplify.
Trust your instincts.
Write.
wrote a 20 page sociology research paper in two days in college with the same album on repeat the whole time. still cannot listen to that album to this day
WATCH: Taiwanese grandmothers aged 89 and 91 train at the gym. An increasing number of elderly people in Taiwan’s super-aged society are hitting the gym to stay healthy, both physically and mentally.
A lot of people are under the mistaken impression that progress means advances in tech. Real progress is kids who are literate, free meals for public school students, a culture in which human art & poetry are celebrated. We're regressing rapidly & the only way forward is to read.