Like teachers all over the globe back in March 2020, I had to shift to emergency remote learning in a week. Unlike most teachers, my middle school computer science curriculum wasn’t based on a textbook with units, chapters, lessons, exercises, etc. So while many of my colleagues had to basically replicate their classroom workflow in […]
What I Learned When I Moved My Entire Curriculum to iPads in a Week Read More »
It’s really not that complicated. We all learn best by doing. Here’s an example from my life. I was doing poorly in 10th grade English. I was a terrible student. I had no interest in school or what I was studying, I had not developed any study habits at all, and I wasn’t even interested
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The title is what got me — The Child Is the Teacher. It’s a biography of Maria Montessori, and I admit I knew nothing about her and almost nothing about her “method”. But I wondered if there was some alignment between my approach and the “Montessori method”. And I was heartened and excited to see
What I’m reading — Maria Montessori! Read More »
