Self-inspect Your Teaching Professionally to Prevent Meh!

Classroom teaching is a black box profession. The lack of ongoing professional critiquing leaves every teacher in the uninformed position of “I will keep doing what I am doing. It seems to be good enough.” How can a teacher know if a lesson uses good instructional practices and behaviors? How can a teacher assure positive correlations between teaching and learning? Teachers are on their own when it comes to evaluating their personal teaching performances. Continue reading

Test Less and Converse More

How do you really know what your students know? Is a student’s learning only the composite score of tests, quizzes, papers, and projects? Be Socratic-like. We can do better when we use better practices.? Continue reading