MetanoiaShifting Thoughts on Education

Challenging Assumptions

I’ve been spending a considerable time of late exploring the views and perspectives of the Common Core Standards especially given the release of names on the work and feedback groups. As my discipline is English, I’ve given a bit more attention to the Mathematics side of the equation and my recent inquiry pointed me to Arthur Benjamin’s formula for math curriculum changes for which he calls for a move to Statistics as the target: “The world has changed from analog to digital. It is …

Why Do Some Kill Student Blogging?

I have to admit that I struggle to grasp why we educators do certain things. One of those struggles is the way we approach “blogging” in the classroom so I’m hoping someone could shed light on this topic.

What are your favorite blogs? You know, the ones that you actually look forward to the next post. What are the qualities that make these blogs that draw you in and keep you coming back for more? I’m willing to bet that our qualities are similar: unique delivery, engaging, relevant, …

A Different Why

I had an opportunity a month or so ago to meet Clarence Fischer and I really appreciated his views on education, his approach to the classroom, and his personality as a whole. What was really interesting, though, was how two different contexts, teacher and administrator, looked at an issue.

That is why it is no surprise that a recent question posed by Clarence on his blog has me looking at it from a different perspective yet similar belief in the importance of the topic: “Why is …

Learning Styles Don’t Exist?

C’mon, you’ve taken a learning style questionaire. What type of learner are you? What about your students? I’m sure many of us have answers to these questions and can easily reference our undergraduate days or in-service training (for those elders in the room) where we learned all about learning styles and the importance of differentiating our instructional approaches to reach each type of learner.

I, for one, have always believed in the concept of learning styles and often talk about my dominant learning style even though …