This posts is the second in a series about making time in your classroom, even when you don’t feel like you have any! Here is the first: Make time for… relationships What’ll happen if I put my head in here? Sure it may have killed a mythical cat. But is that old saw really any [...]
Make time for… curiosity
November 27, 2010 — habits of mind, inquiry, learning
Big questions
October 25, 2010 — habits of mind, inquiry, Project Based Learning
Too often we treat our students with kid gloves. We give them weak, watered down, sterile, sanitized, aseptic curriculum. Curriculum that reminds you of grandmother’s powder room in which you were afraid to dirty the towels, so you dried you hands on your pants instead. We don’t let students wrestle with the really big questions [...]


