You bet it does. Separate your thinking about past practices from your thinking about the future. The dividing line between the two is educational accountability. In the past, educational achievement was the record of how well individual children learned. Some … Continue reading
If I Did One Thing Differently
Big changes take time. They are achieved by blending many small changes through consistent and conscious effort overcoming innumerable obstacles arguing for the status quo until an aggregate of change is accomplished. Big changes are hard to accomplish because personal … Continue reading
Ready! Aim! Fire at Which Target?
This writing will start on the firing line at a local gun club and finish on the teaching line in every Wisconsin classroom. I have watched my friend Buzz when he shoots trap and skeet at the local gun club. … Continue reading
An Expert Pedagogue
Finding really strong teachers is not easy. Principals and superintendents must look closely at every teacher and teacher candidate to find expert pedagogues. If a teacher was an onion you would find that, as in a bushel of onions, teachers … Continue reading
To Cause Learning – the Power of Causation
Teachers cause students to learn. Let’s expand this. Expert teachers use their mastery of instructional strategies and learning to “cause” all students to demonstrate their incremental mastery of significant and enduring knowledge, skills and problem solving strategies and their capacity … Continue reading