TWO WORDS FOR BETTER TEACHING
Greetings!! I trust you are ready for a wonderful new school year. At this time of the year, I always feel like I can leave my mistakes from the previous semester behind and start anew with refreshed hope and enthusiasm. To celebrate the new year, I wanted to discuss two words that I believe can make anyone a better classroom teacher. Not immediately, but over the course of a semester or two. I am not sure that anything works immediately. Progress has to be slow and steady. ** Word One Back in August of 2014, I wrote a blog entry that mentioned the following article from The Chronicle of Higher Education. http://chronicle.com/article/Confuse-Students-to-Help-Them/148385/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en I just think the importance of confusing students cannot be over-emphasized and is worth a second look. I define �lecturer� as someone who does 80 percent or more of the tal...