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First Year of Teaching /Best Practice
First Year of Teaching / Best Practice Teacher Passivity and Teacher Proximity Today’s topic of teacher passivity and proximity to learning go together. I believe that there is a direct correlation between teacher passivity and student achievement. I also believe that when a teacher is within “a proximal distance” to a student, learning will improve. …
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Leadership / First Year of Teaching / Best Practice
Leadership / First Year of Teaching / Best Practice Receiving feedback Please do not ask, “how am I doing?”, if you do not want to know the truth! I know this question has been posed to me many times, and the wait time before I answered seemed like an eternity. I wasn’t prepared to tell…
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Leadership / First Year of Teaching / Best Practice
Leadership /First year of Teaching / Best Practice Giving Feedback Grant Wiggins describes feedback as more than just hearing comments made after the fact, namely: advice, praise, and evaluation. He asserts that feedback is the information we receive about how we are doing to reach a goal. (Wiggins, 2012 ) Usable feedback followed by advice…