The Lesson Planning and Preparing Disconnect
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May 02, 2012
Lesson Planning: The Task I Love To Hate
What would you say is the hardest part of teaching? For me, it is lesson planning. It takes me on average six hours a week to plan instruction for the nine science units I teach each year. It's not just the writing of the plans that is laborious; it's the intellectual contemplation that goes in... Read Full Post >
February 20, 2012
Mandatory Homework--for Teachers
In my recent post, Don't Prevent Students' Mistakes, Prepare for Them, I wrote that lesson planning should be more about anticipating students' errors and preparing to help them learn from those errors than trying to develop presentations that prevent all errors. "Sounds good in theory," a teacher ... Read Full Post >
January 02, 2012
Don't Prevent Students' Mistakes, Prepare for Them
It's common knowledge that people can learn as much from their mistakes as anything. And yet traditional teaching methods often deny students the chance to learn from their mistakes by preventing them from making mistakes. In social studies and science, for example, a lot of teachers tell student... Read Full Post >
