When I hear people pit new teachers against experienced ones it makes me crazy. I cringe every time I hear that catch-all “burnt out” attached to experienced practitioners. Yes, I’m sure you can find teachers who are marking time until they can get to the retirement board, but that’s the exception, not the rule. And [...]
Posts Tagged ‘collaboration’
Divide and conquer?
Posted in The Craft of Teaching, tagged collaboration, educators, experienced teachers, new teachers, tenure on January 17, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Visualize This
Posted in The Craft of Teaching, tagged collaboration, visualization on November 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Our strategy focus at this time in the year is making a visualization. Have you ever stopped to think about how useful this strategy really is? For my money, it seeps into just about every area of the third grade curriculum. In Word Study, we ask the kids to Look-Say-Cover-Write-Check. In other words, look at [...]
