Teaching Tips
Tutor.com
photo credit: Beard Papa
Recently I embarked on a new teaching journey and would love to share a great resource with my readers.
Tutor.com is a website designed to connect students with qualified tutors. Students can either access the site from a library and receive 20 minutes of free instruction at a time (the library pays for the [...]
Mike Meyers — Unconsciously Competent
photo credit: Trevor Blake
One of my favorite “brain-candy” television shows is Bravo’s Actor’s Studio. Through the years, I have discovered that any preconceived ideas I may have about an actor will most likely become transformed if not changed entirely. James Lipton is a masterful interviewer – he is insatiably curious about human nature and tremendously respectful [...]
Sticky Ideas
photo credit: projectbamboo
I recently read a book called Made to Stick by Chip and Dan Heath that I wish I had read my first year teaching. The focus of the book was on how to make ideas stick — whether as a parent, a teacher, a marketer, etc. In order for an idea to “stick,” the [...]
The Knowledge Gap
photo credit: ritesh3
As I stated in an earlier post, I am happily rejoining the ranks of teachers this summer, albeit in a nontraditional way. Honestly, my first day of training was the first day of summer for all of my collagues, which actually felt just fine thanks to my year off (and the extremely [...]
