by edtosavetheworld | Apr 17, 2013 | Stage 2: Active Processing
Are you exhausted at the end of a day of teaching? Does your head hurt? Are you hoarse? Do you look something like this? You may be suffering from a common condition called Doing-It-For-Them-Itis, otherwise known as Mother Robin Syndrome (MRS). This results when a...
by edtosavetheworld | Apr 15, 2013 | Stage 2: Active Processing
Pop Quiz Consider the following problems. (image credits: blogs.telegraph.co.uk, waterhapsody.co.za, autismspeaks.org) Considering these problems, which do you think would be the most important response for our schools? A. More math classes in schools B. More science...
by edtosavetheworld | Apr 12, 2013 | Stage 2: Joyful and Efficient
Like She-ra’s sword, Luke Skywalker’s lightsaber, Chuck Norris’s roundhouse… YOU have a secret weapon for efficient classrooms! Every Student Response (ESR) is a way of posing a question so that — you guessed it — each student...
by edtosavetheworld | Apr 11, 2013 | Stage 2: Joyful and Efficient
Remember the children’s book Miss Nelson is Missing? Or the other “Miss Nelson” books by James Marshall, Miss Nelson is Back or Miss Nelson Has a Field Day? Let me jog your memory: Miss Nelson is an elementary school teacher whose kind nature and lax...
by edtosavetheworld | Apr 10, 2013 | Stage 2: Joyful and Efficient
A few years ago my school bought every teacher and leader a copy of the book Teach Like a Champion and initiated a professional development cycle based on some of the techniques it touts. Teach Like a Champion consists of 49 discrete classroom management and...
