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Cargo cult teaching, cargo cult learning

Dec 10, 2015 | Category: English
…it is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives…Francis Bacon, Novum Organum, Aphorism, 1620 Cargo cults grew up on...

Teaching sequence for developing independence Stage 2: Model

Jun 30, 2013 | Category: English
Over the past few years I've thought a lot about how and what we should teach. My journey has been long and painful. I used to evangelically promote the teaching of transferable '21st century skills'...

Great teaching happens in cycles - the teaching sequence for developing independence

Jun 24, 2013 | Category: Featured
Last year I wrote a post called The Anatomy of an Outstanding Lesson, which has become by far my most viewed post with almost 10,000 page views. Clearly teachers are hungry for this kind of thing. But...