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How to Help Educators Manage Their Time
PJ Caposey’s latest book, Manage Your Time or Time Will Manage You (ACSD, 2018), more-or-less delivers on its subtitle’s bold promise: “Strategies that work from an educator who’s been there.” The book opens with a self-assessment designed to help readers determine the root cause of their own clock management challenges. Are you work avoidant, a people …
Teachers as Designers in The Coming Machine Age
The emergence of blended learning, ed tech, and online secondary schools might cause educators to wonder what their role might be in the future, when machines rule the world.
Hey Bots, All the World’s a Stage: some Notes on Keith Johnstone’s Impro as it relates to teaching
Keith Johnstone’s Impro offers guidance on how to bring about something elusive: the authentic present. High Quality Facilitation When describing improv exercises, Johnstone draws on memorable scenes from his own practice as director/teacher, making the whole book incredibly dramatic and way more useful because you get to “see” how Johnstone comports himself while he’s facilitating. …
Treating Classes Like Gatherings, Part Three: Ending Well(If you haven’t read part one, on establishing purpose, or part two, on facilitating well, I’d [keep reading...]
Treating Classes Like Gatherings, Part Two: Teaching With Generous Authority(If you haven’t read part one, about establishing purpose, consider starting there.) After [keep reading...]
Why Teachers Should Consider Their Classes “Gatherings”Priya Parker’s The Art of Gathering, a book that, as the subtitle suggests, takes up the subject of [keep reading...]