letsquitteaching

I heard a teacher say once, “I am not here to have relationships with students or even to be liked. I am here to teach them the content. That’s it.” There might be more educators out there like this who feel the same way. But, what if we discovered that the relationships we have (or […]

If you search the internet for “copycat recipes” you will discover dozens of sites that basically take all our favorite things we eat or drink at national restaurant chains and supply the user with the copycat recipe verison of the item.  I mean, who doesn’t want to sit at home and eat some hot Red

So, below is an email I received from my editor at Taylor and Francis Press from Routledge. A minor change in the title, “Let’s Stop Teaching and Start Designing Learning: A Practical Guide.” (Changed the “quit” since we didn’t really want to give the wrong impressions when readers searched for book on Amazon.”) Looking forward

As my summer ends and I am back in the building, the focus of the new school year starts to emerge. We meet and discuss and plan on the typical “school” stuff, making sure everything is scheduled, in place, covered, planned for, etc. All that is important, don’t get me wrong. But now is also

In order to understand this reason, we have to think more along the lines of the process of teaching itself is not preparing students for the future rather than the content knowledge. No one will argue that in order to learn 4th grade math content, students must have been prepared by content from 3rd grade