Kyle Pace posted a challenge during last night’s #edchat on encouraging teachers to adapt and change in response to the needs of today’s students.
It sent me thinking in a new direction about teacher evaluation as practiced by us teachers.
Apart from formal teacher evaluation, we evaluate one another all the time. We evaluate ourselves against [...]
[Editor's note: I've been extremely fortunate in being able to speak and msg with several pre-service teachers this Fall. Each and every one of them has helped me better articulate my beliefs and practices. They certainly are colleagues and a great addition to any PLN. This post goes out to all pre-service teachers [...]
Relationships come first in a joyful classroom. Students’ success and their enjoyment of it depend on positive relationships at school. Certainly, students need to feel safe around their classmates in order to take the academic risks that lead to meaning-making. Students unwilling to share any of themselves with others will have a [...]
Chad teaches humanities at a charter school and blogs on reforming classroom practice and democratic education.
