Student Guide Corner

I just checked the statistics for this teaching blog.   Sometime over the next day or so, it will likely reach a total of 200,000 page views.   I am always amazed and pleased that so many teachers read these essays.   Since there is no publicity, the word only spreads because readers like you pass along the URL.   Thanks for doing that!!  Whenever you read an idea that you like, I hope you will share it with your colleagues, friends, neighbors, and even your enemies.   I love it when people send me teaching ideas.  Likewise, I appreciate your sharing my thoughts with others.  Teaching ideas should be shared and not hoarded. ** If you have read this blog for long, you know that I am always thinking of possible ways that I can improve my teaching.   I am a big believer that the more ideas you have then the more ideas you will have.  If you have one idea, a second idea may be difficult to produce. ...

Before I get started today, I want to mention that this blog went over 83,000 page views a few days ago.   I truly am thrilled by that level of traffic and wanted (as always) to thank everyone who passes along the URL to someone else.   I believe that we teachers CAN improve teaching in this country and in this world but only by being willing to share ideas and resources.    We need to think and talk more about teaching, learning, and education.    There should be genuine joy and excitement in the exchange of teaching/learning thoughts.    I hope the blog encourages those activities. ** Two nights ago, my wife and I went to see the play �Red� here in Richmond about the artist Mark Rothko and his paintings.   It was an excellent play and I enjoyed it all.   But there was one very short section that I have thought about 1,000 times over the last 48 hours.    In the play, Rothko is talking about how he learned to become an artist ...