What is the Best Teaching Advice You’ve Received? is the new “questions of the week” at my Education Week Teacher column.
Feel free to leave your responses in the comments sections there or here….
What is the Best Teaching Advice You’ve Received? is the new “questions of the week” at my Education Week Teacher column.
Feel free to leave your responses in the comments sections there or here….
You can’t teach all the knowledge in the world, but you can teach the skills and processes needed to learn that knowledge.
This sentence has most impact so far on my teaching :~ YOU ARE EITHER PART OF PROBLEM OR PART OF SOLUTION.
Be the adult you needed as a kid.
What is the Best Teaching Advice You’ve Received? is the new “questions of the week” at my Education Week Teacher column.
My aha moment comes from Creating Cultures of Thinking by Ron Ritchhart when he describes cultures as the story that is told. Listen to what people say in a school and you can understand the culture and he uses Lev Vygotsky’s quote: “Children grow up into the intellectual life of those around them.” It resonated me as how we shape our school culture.
30 years ago I was given a coffee mug for my college graduation with the quote, “Those who can teach, those who can’t go into a less significant line of work”. At the time I was somewhat embarrassed to use or display it. After being in the profession 10 years or so, I pulled the mug out of storage and proudly displayed it. It hasn’t left my classroom since.
Our profession is only for those who are unselfish with their time, money, emotion and ever longing need to continue to learn so our students may benefit. These words have been a reminder during those times of doubt, I am the person for this job.
I am so very proud of my profession and the impact we have each day on every child. This isn’t a profession for anyone. It’s for those who can handle the hours, ever-changing demands with less time to ensure each child that enters our classrooms has our best.