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Intelligence is ALWAYS Interpersonal: man, thou art slime mold …
As teachers, we need to embrace our slime mold heritage. We need to seek more and more opportunities to feed our discoveries back into the network, and seek…
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A Tale of Two Kindergarten Teachers: what it means to center on the needs of the learner
O-sensei was lovely. She played the piano exquisitely. Her activities ran like clockwork, and when speaking to the room, she was warm and radiated intelligence in a way…
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Yeah, you probably CAN do it in your sleep, but that don’t make it a good idea: Debate Seminar, Prepping for Lesson 5 (June 15, 2:30pm)
Teaching, if you are doing it right, is ALWAYS hard because learning, if you are doing it right, is ALWAYS hard. If it’s not hard, then you are…
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Embracing Your Four-Year Career
But I love my job, and I want to keep it! I always tell teachers that they need to think like managers, to try toconceptualize the decisions that they…
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Past Participles, Have You Ever (Game)…Lesson
Here is a lesson by Sarvajit Patil with contributions by Grant Backes on teaching the present perfect/past participles and practicing using “Have you ever….?” The crux of the…
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Your Students’ Job, to Communicate Need, Your Job, to Make Decisions
ask … a) Do I know the needs? What am I doing to determine the needs? b) What decisions have I made so far, am I making now,…
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