Archive for the ‘Andragogy’ Category

Beyond Cynicism

I’ve noticed that a certain subset of newer teachers, say those who started in the past 5 years or so, have this really intense emotional reaction to certain activities within the realm of professional development. Specifically: If you put a photocopied packet in front of us containing strategies for organizing classroom activities or groupwork, we [...]

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Today’s Graphs

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Keywords: publishing, authoritative source, mass media, journalism

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Keywords: hockey stick, stagnation, class division, social content

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Mnemonics

Good teaching is good teaching. Lately I’ve been teaching the adults a couple days a week, as we prepare to launch the new school web site. I find it a lot more difficult and tiring to teach adults (at least, my colleagues) than to teach students. But regardless of the audience, there [...]

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