When do we “help” students too much?

Posted on July 13, 2010 in Philosophy by InnerEd  Tagged , , , , ,

Jamie Huston at Gently Hew Stone gives a great look at how we treat the “lost students” in our schools.  He correctly  shows how our systems views students: As a teacher, does this mean that I should ignore the students who are succeeding and more self-sufficient and spend my time trying to “save” struggling students? [...]

The Ways We Change

Posted on July 29, 2009 in Philosophy by InnerEd  Tagged , , , , ,

Working last week with the freshly minted teachers in pre-service, I commented to one of the teachers about how much I had seen my teaching change in the  2 1/2 years that I now have with my own classroom.  Some examples: I have gone from weighting my grades not by assignment type and completion (which [...]