If you are familiar with the work of John Hattie and Visible Learning, you may know of the 10 Mindsets he identified for educators who wish to transform the classroom and promote learning over teaching. As an instructional coach, I had these posted in my room and used them in my discussions with fellow teachers. […]
The First Learning Mindframe Needed to Quit Teaching: “I am a change agent.” Read More »
Do you remember the most coveted job there was when you were in elementary school? I do. It was being chosen as the LINE LEADER. What a power rush for a 6 year old! Being chosen to lead the line of your classmates out to recess and back or to some other special place in
The Real Job of School Leadership: Being the Line Leader… Read More »
Tasks must be designed, not just assigned. This is a key difference in the mindset of a teacher versus a learning engineer. If we want learning to happen, we have to design our tasks accordingly. Last time, we discussed how these tasks we ask our learners to produce must SHOW that learning took place. In
Step 2 in Designing Learning: What is the TASK? Part III Read More »
Last week, we looked at the second step in quitting teaching to start designing learning: Determining the TASK. Remember, to move from a teaching mindset to a learning one we have to know that tasks must be designed, not just assigned. Also, the task has some basic, minimal requirements to meet in order for them
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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
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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
Reason 3 to Quit Teaching: It Leads to Misbehavior Read More »
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 »
