I’m creeping up on my deadline for TLAC 2.0 revisions and have asked my family and friends to avoid using the word ‘b*ok’ or, God forbid, ‘m*nuscript’ around me as they make me start to mutter and sweat uncontrollably. Anyway, this morning I finished my revisions of Right is Right and thought I’d share a bit…
At TLAC towers, we recently viewed a clip of Math teacher Kate Butrie of Williamsburg Collegiate implementing the Show Call technique. (Show Call is Cold Calling students by taking their written work and projecting it; if you’re looking for it in your copy of TLAC, you won’t find it; it’s new to TLAC 2.0!). What really impressed us…
I’m writing about a new topic for TLAC 2.0: The Tell (defined below). It’d be helpful to hear some examples of ‘tells’ people are aware of in their own teaching. I hope to include a few in the book so please chime in with examples in the comments section. And please enjoy this short excerpt from…
Part one of a really interesting (for me) interview I recently did with Soccer America’s Mike Woitalla is out and up today. You can read it here. The topic is Check for Understanding, which is perhaps the biggest challenge for any teacher… the hardest “endemic problem” in the job, to use Deborah Ball’s phrase. Two follow-up…
[Note: This morning I boldly typed out a message to the world when I thought my editors weren’t listening. But of course (you saw this coming) they were listening, and now I am in trouble. But it’s worse than that even. The editor who was listening was … my mom. Now I should say that my…