As you may recall, the first step in Designing Learning begins with the end in mind by way of Learning Targets (see previous post HERE). Many would think naturally the next step in the process would be to answer the question, “Now that I know what I want students to learn, what am I going […]
Step 2 in Designing Learning: What is the TASK? Read More »
I realize my first two reasons for teachers to quit teaching were student-centered in nature. Teaching is passive and it is not engaging. So for this next reason I felt I should give a reason with the classroom educator as the focus by discussing how quitting teaching and designing learning will improve positive student behavior
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Before anyone gets offended, let’s reflect on the nature of teaching in the traditional sense. It often involves the delivery of information by a single individual. Only ONE person, whether it’s the teacher or even a chosen student in class to read aloud, work a problem or model a skill, is fully engaged. What is
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Imagine this. Your supervisor brings everyone out to the front of your building, has the whole group line up side-by-side, and announces that the footrace is about to begin. Your supervisor raises a starter pistol and yells out, “On your marks! Get set! GO!” BANG! Look around you and what would you see? Some would
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How do you quit teaching? It starts and ends with choice. The first choice you must make as a teacher is to quit teaching like we always have and to start designing learning in the classroom. From there, the rest of this design process is one choice after another. However, all these choices are much
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The most important reason why we need to quit teaching and start designing learning is that teaching, in general and traditionally, is passive. Students come to class, get information or have skills modeled for them, then they complete work. Repeat for next class. Basically, we could replace this same process with Youtube videos and save
Reason #1 to Quit Teaching: It’s PASSIVE. Read More »
We want our students to improve. We want scores to rise. We want to see a turnaround in achievement, but what most do not realize is most of that happens when you overhaul what Tier 1 instruction is in the classroom. I read a great quote today, “Districts and schools cannot buy or intervene their
Tier 1 Instruction is burnt out and HAS to change… Read More »
So before we decide to work together and make teaching into something that offers effective and meaningful learning opportunities like never before, we have to talk about our attitude towards change. We don’t like it. We think we have things all figured out. We know that what we are doing is working just fine the
“What ARE you prepared to do?” Read More »
For this first blog post, I want to apologize to all of the students I “taught” over the years. You may have enjoyed my classes, you may have learned some things, you may have even stopped me later at the grocery store or at the movies and told me how much you loved my class
First, an apology… Read More »
