Tag Archives: Teacher retention

The Asking of New Questions

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 [...]

Schools Need Teachers Like the One I Want To Be. So I’m Staying.

Where’s the game / In life / Behind the game / Behind the game
-Public Enemy, “He Got Game”
In reading Sarah Fine’s rationale for leaving teaching, I was stuck by her friends’ question, “Why teach?” Here’s my answer.

I teach because I want to learn. I want to figure out the best way to foster [...]