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Monthly Archives: October 2013
Music instruction at school and its impact on learning
I go into many schools over the course of a year, many of which are in urban settings and serve at risk students, and if, during the time that I’m visiting, there is music playing somewhere in the building, I … Continue reading
Posted in Classroom, School, School district, Teachers, Teaching
Tagged harmony project, lori miller kase, music education, nina kraus, the atlantic
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Looking around: Creating a learning environment (even without a teacher)
My friend Kevin Washburn (@kdwashburn) is the executive director of Clerestory Learning, author of the instructional-design model Architecture of Learning and instructional-writing program Writer’s Stylus, and co-author of an instructional-reading program used by schools nationwide. He’s the author of The … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Classroom, School, Teachers, Teaching
Tagged Architecture of Learning, Clerestory Learning, erik wahl, kevin washburn, Montessori, technology, unthink, Writer’s Stylus
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Teach Elmore Leonard’s Hombre!
I loved this Elmore Leonard novel, easily my favorite of the Leonard books that I have read, and part of the reason that I loved it was because I could imagine teaching it. It has the layers that make a … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Classroom, Teachers, Teaching
Tagged elmore leonard, ford madox ford, hombre, jude the obscure, the good soldier, thomas hardy, valdez is coming
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Talking and listening
This weekend’s Wall Street Journal had this great piece by Rob Lazebnik – called It’s True: You Talk Too Much – and it brought me back to a post I did in June on developing good question-askers. In the article … Continue reading
Posted in Classroom, Parents, School, Teachers, Teaching
Tagged effective questioning, Koegel Autism Center, Lynn Koegel, questions, rob lazebnik, serge bloch, wall street journal
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On seeing your teacher at the grocery store
There is that story that teachers tell about seeing a student outside the context of the school building, the student completely flummoxed by the teacher being in, say, the grocery store or at the gas station. “I’d thought you lived … Continue reading