When children are given a platform along with a set of broad expectations, they can perform in ways that surprise and delight us, often dealing with what adults see as impediments and limitations with maturity and panache. We as teachers Read More …
Category: 2008
Different Strokes
It’s dinned into our heads right from when we begin learning about teaching that each child is different, that we need to teach in a way that addresses the potential of the individual child. But somewhere along the line the Read More …
Take a Moment… or More
As we near the stress-point of the school calendar – examinations coming up, syllabi to be completed, “laggards” to be dealt with – we are more focused on just getting things done rather than on the manner in which we Read More …
Say it in Your Own Words
Remember why the good Lord made your eyes Let nothing evade your eyes Plagiarise, plagiarise, plagiarise! – Tom Lehrer, Harvard mathematician That rather tongue-in-cheek advice from a modern-day satirist-songster seems to have become the rule for many writers of the Read More …