In their book, Made To Stick, authors Chip and Dan Heath describe the story of Jane Elliott.
Jane was a third-grade teacher on April 4, 1968, the day Martin Luther King was assassinated.
Struggling to explain the tragedy to her students, Jane decided to try something unusual. She separated her class by eye color.
She placed the brown-eyed [...]
Confidence is an important trait in a teacher, but so is humility. Although I don’t subscribe to the belief that a teacher never truly arrives or can never reach a high level of excellence, I do believe in the continual need to be self-aware of one’s mistakes and open to new ideas. A dose of [...]
Modeling is so effective that it should be among your most often used teaching strategies.
When most people think of modeling, they envision a teacher standing in the front her class performing a task she expects from her students. For example, if she were modeling an art project, she would most likely make the project herself [...]
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