Twenty-Three Facets of Teaching – and What They Imply for Teachers

In this article in Huff Post Education, Stephen Downes shares an extraordinary list of the roles teachers play that he created in collaboration with a graduate class and Twitter followers:

• The learner – Modeling being excited about something new, exploring it, trying it, and engaging students in learning about it.

• The…

An Educator Shifts Her Thinking In Three Key Areas

“Comprehension strategies are more important now than ever,” says instructional coach/author/consultant Debbie Miller in this article in The Reading Teacher. “They help children get smarter about big, important topics that are relevant to them and help them become powerful and thoughtful human beings.” Common Core State Standards give teachers clear guidance on what those strategies are.…

MORAL PURPOSE WRIT LARGE

By Michael Fullan, Ph.D.

The pressing goal is to infuse spiritual force into all educators.



 The expanding interest in moral and spiritual leadership in education is an alluring but complex phenomenon. People can be automatically attracted to or repelled by the emphasis on the spiritual.

First, an explanation of the terminology. Both terms—"moral purpose" and "spiritual leadership"—have…

Bullying as True Drama

By DANAH BOYD and ALICE MARWICK

SL 2.0 Note:  This is a dated article but not "out of date."

THE suicide of Jamey Rodemeyer, the 14-year-old boy from western…

It's the Students, Stupid

The billionaires' club, with their long retinue of pundits, researchers, and other hangers-on, are giving their attention, some of the time, to education. But they are not paying attention to the academic work of students, or to their responsibility for their own education.

Mr. Gates spent nearly two hundred million dollars recently on a program for teacher assessment, but does he realize that in almost every class there are…