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Category Archives: Motivation
Student Motivation: What Level of Engagement Are Your Students At?
I’ve worked a lot with schools wanting to motivate students, and we have largely focused on the “how.” In this work, I have named the conditions necessary for students to be motivated (as have others, such as here). My list … Continue reading
What’s to Blame for Kids Not Learning?
If you’ve been following this blog for a while, you know I believe all students can learn. You know I think there are “easy to teach” students and “hard to teach” students, but I think they all can learn. So … Continue reading
What Makes for Good Learning Experiences?
The more we try to to help build the talents of every student and help every learner succeed in school, the more we have to be deliberate about creating good learning experiences in our classrooms. I have certainly added to … Continue reading
We Had It All Backwards: The Two Types of Instruction
When I told my Curriculum Director, Shelly, about my thinking about there being two types of instruction (Instruction for Lower Level Thinking and Instruction for Higher Order Thinking), she seemed to think the idea made a lot of sense to … Continue reading
Thinking of Instruction as Two Types
When our pilot teachers were visiting a school that is a little further along than we are at implementing Customized Learning, a colleague and I got talking about how we (us and our colleagues) had a lot of work to … Continue reading
School is Boring
School is boring. We all know it. Kids know it. Parents know it, but don’t want to think about it. We teachers know it, too, but defend it. In some small way, I think we don’t want to think that … Continue reading
What If Sitting In Class Were As Much Fun As Days Off!
I participate in conversations on the Association for Middle Level Education’s MiddleTalk listserve. Recently, we’ve had a series of interesting conversations around each of the 9 points in the Forbes article, “Nine Dangerous Things You Were Taught In School.” Number … Continue reading
Mexican Food Schools
I remember being in high school, and frustrated with school, and thinking, “I can do this better than it’s being done to me!” I think that thought alone is the main reason I became a teacher. But it is also … Continue reading
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It’s a Matter of Using the Right Prompt: The Words of Gary Stager
This week, both Gary Stager and I were featured speakers at the Association for Independent Maryland and DC Schools’ (AIMS) technology conference. Gary is an old friend and colleague, who has a long history of working with 1to1 learning with … Continue reading
Are Parents Leaving Their Good Kids at Home? Easy to Teach and Hard to Teach
I’ve worked with teachers, who refer to their students as “quick learners” and “slow learners,” or “bright students” and “dumb students.” Other teachers approach me sounding as if they believe that kids either have motivation or they don’t, and that … Continue reading
