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Sustainable Teaching Blog
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The Sustainable Teaching Blog focuses on improving the quality of instruction, primarily at the secondary school level. This is not a blog on "green" initiatives, but, rather, is focused on sustaining teachers in their efforts.
- Added on: Dec 2nd, 2008
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Kyle Jones
- Listed in: Secondary Education eLearning
Recent Posts
Rigor Mortis
Rigor MortisIn a country where the self-serve gas station seems a wonderful symbol for a pervasive approach to life, I’m not surprised that I get a lot of criticism for promoting schools that make room for the self of the student. “Kids today a...
Getting on Track
Getting on TrackAllen and Carol Smith seized an opportunity to spend most of a year in South America, particularly excited that their two young children could attend a local school and immerse themselves in a new culture and language. Prior to thei...
Paying Attention
Paying AttentionHere’s a riddle: If there are no stupid questions, why are so many of them asked in schools?Most teachers, especially on the first day of class, assure students that there are no stupid questions. The assurance has become somethin...
The Valley of the Shadow: Part 2
The Valley of the ShadowPart 2:Risky BusinessOf all the claims that schools make, the one lost in the deepest shadow is the assertion that “our students learn to take risks.” Risk-taking is meant to imply that students are able to move out of t...
The Valley of the Shadow
The Valley of the ShadowPart 1:The Emperor’s ClothesIn my experience, independent schools live in the shadow that falls, as Eliot put it, “between the idea and the reality … between the conception and the creation.” The glossy rhetoric of s...
Guerrilla Teachers
Guerrilla Teachers“Something’s not right here. What is it?” asks Krista stepping back as she works through one of the problems that her tenth grade math students have put on the white boards around the room. She looks at the numbers as stud...
