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Monthly Archives: August 2014

Teaching and Learning: Send Them Off on Their Own

So much of human development is non-linear and does not lend itself to teaching but expands exponentially with opportunity to learn. When we’re stuck in rows, dying by slides and graphs, captured like little flies in the web of curriculum and testing, we never get to explore and discover. What if we teachers gave our...
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Teaching and Thinking

I'm a recovering English teacher, so words are very important to me. I think there's a huge difference between "helping children to think" and "teaching children to think."

We think. Period. Most of the problems in schools rest on the barriers to thinking implicit in our outmoded concept of teaching - that we tall people...

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Encouraging Childlike Behavior in the Workplace

When we teachers, parents, managers, leaders, and others with more apparent power see ourselves as in control of others, we encourage childishness―in others and in ourselves. This is especially true in the workplace, where we struggle with the boundaries of control and often mistake a lack of questions for agreement. That void of questions is often a...
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