To the first point that historically teachers have altered their daily practices, first-hand accounts by teachers, histories of teaching over the past century, and journalist accounts record such changes (seeher
Inquiry. Here he wants students in their group to brainstorm questions they would ask about imperialism for their project essays. He asks each table group of four to have one of them act as recorder while the other three members stand up and says questions that they...
Below, is an example of what I did when helping students successfully complete this math enrichment project. One way that you could adapt the lesson would be to provide the first two lines; Pre-drawn for students. I didn’t. I just dropped off the instructions and told students to use ...
for example, are instances of actual and attempted fundamental changes in the school and classroom since the turn of the century that were widely adopted, incorporated into many schools, and then, over time, were marginalized into incremental changes. ...
For example, every student had to memorize a poem and recite it in front of the class without notes. I do recall being assigned the poem “Abou Ben Adhem” and how frightened I was to stand up from my desk, slowly walk down the row toward the teacher’s desk in front of the black...
When talking about screen time and kids’ access to handheld devices, Brad Zacuto, who heads the school, likes to use an old-fashioned analogy: “It’s like putting a child behind a wheel of a car. There’s a lot of power there.” ...
Rosin opts for parental judgment on a child-by-child basis. She does not see high-tech devices for toddlers as an enemy to be fought and conquered. She does not, however, speak to the plasticity of the brain and the capacities of new electronic devices altering how toddlers learn, what ...
“silly anecdote about yourself as a child.” Students begin interacting in their small groups. One student asks the teacher what an “anecdote” is. Teacher bounces the question back to the class and one student says “it is a story.” Krauss then gives an example of an anecdote from ...