Expecting Excellence

  • Best Practice / First Year of Teaching

    Best Practice/ First Year of Teaching Listening to our students. Last week I shared with you some thoughts on best practice instruction.  I hope it sparked some personal reflection and perhaps caused you to change your strategy for an upcoming lesson. Perhaps, you thoughtfully scrapped an upcoming lecture and re-worked the lesson to make it…

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  • Best Practice Instruction / First Year of Teaching

    Best Practice Instruction / First Year of Teaching Thinking about best practices. A great deal has been written about instructional best practices. Discussions about best practice have dominated the educational landscape now for well over a decade.  Past blog articles illuminate my thoughts on what goes on in many of our classrooms. To be fair,…

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  • Best Practice /First Year of Teaching / Leadership

    Best Practice / First Year of Teaching / Leadership Are we boring our students to death? I am engaged in an ongoing philosophical debate with a colleague and friend. [On an aside, I strongly urge each person to cultivate this type of relationship with someone that will enable you to participate in discourse about our…

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