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Teaching English: The Keepers
Tidbits gleaned from MAT classes, classroom observation, and student teaching.
(Source: ifyoutrysometimes)
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(Source: writingprompts)
(Source: writingprompts)
(Source: raptorific, via libraryland)
(Source: karmish)
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5Nobody is superior, nobody is inferior, but nobody is equal either. People are simply unique, incomparable. You are you, I am I.
I have to contribute my potential to life; you have to contribute your potential to life. I have to discover my own being; you have to discover your own being.
I have to contribute my potential to life; you have to contribute your potential to life. I have to discover my own being; you have to discover your own being.
Osho
(Source: nirvikalpa, via anotherword)
[Y]ou have to be comfortable with this idea of allowing kids to fail as part of the learning process. We deal right now in the educational landscape with an infatuation with the culture of one right answer that can be properly bubbled on the average multiple-choice test, and I am here to share with you: it is not learning. That is the absolute wrong thing to ask, to tell kids to never be wrong. To ask them to always have the right answer doesn’t allow them to learn.
— Diana Laufenberg, Diana Laufenberg: How to learn? From mistakes, TED: Ideas worth spreading
Add THAT one to the list of videos all teachers need to watch.
(Source: liveandlovethequestions)
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[I]f we continue to look at education as if it’s about coming to school to get the information, and not about experiential learning, empowering student voice, and embracing failure, we’re missing the mark. And everything that everybody is talking about today [at a November 2010 TEDxMidAtlantic Conference] isn’t possible if we keep having an educational system that does not value these qualities, because we won’t get there with a standardised test and we won’t get there with a culture of one right answer. We know how to do this better, and it’s time to do better.
Diana Laufenberg, Diana Laufenberg: How to learn? From mistakes, TED: Ideas worth spreading
(Source: liveandlovethequestions)
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[L]earning has to include an amount of failure, because failure is instructional in the process.
Diana Laufenberg, Diana Laufenberg: How to learn? From mistakes, TED: Ideas worth spreading
(Source: liveandlovethequestions)
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