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The Grief of Accepting New Ideas
Changes in school or classroom practices unleash a variety of emotions. How can we support each other in the process?
The faculty lounge crackles with disagreements about the new grading policies suggested by the standards-based grading committee. The English department debates whether or not grammar proficiency is a requisite for...
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Rick Wormeli
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Teacher Motivation
Memorization Still Matters
Benefits of quick access to working memory and 25 memorization techniques
In a world in which we can always look things up, memorization still matters. Depending on the situation, engagement, meaning, progress, expediency, and safety are increased significantly if participants have the...
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Cheating and Plagiarizing
Ben reads below grade level, and knows that if he whines about how unfair school is, his dad will cave in and do most of the work for him. Jacqueline knows how to do the math, but she doesn't think she should...
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Rick Wormeli
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Discipline
We Have to Prepare Students for the Next Level, Don't We?
Some universities blame the poor academic performance of their young adult students on the poor quality instruction they think students received in high schools. High schools blame the middle schools, middle schools...
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Rick Wormeli
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Do Teachers Remain Neutral or Share their Beliefs with Students?
Politics, Racism, Religious, Classism, Sexual Orientation: Do Teachers Remain Neutral or Share their Beliefs with Students? I struggle to respect the opinions of those who believe the earth is only 6,000 years...
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Rick Wormeli
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Critical Thinking
Graphic Representations of Student Achievement
Let's interpret the data as it's written: 80, 90, 0, check, check-minus, absent, 55, 87, absent, 77, one day late 90, check, 90, check, 12, 91, check, check, 88, absent, 84, check, check, check, check, check, absent,...
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Rick Wormeli
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Student Achievement
Teaching Students Responsibility
For as long as humans have lived on Earth, generations of adults have bemoaned the lack of due diligence in the upcoming generation: "They're indifferent and don't work hard," they declare. "We have to teach them...
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Rick Wormeli
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Social Emotional Learning
Confronting Our Assumptions and Biases
When my wife and I were thinking of names for our children, and yes, our dogs, they were difficult conversations. As you probably understand, some of the students I've taught through the years were particularly rough...
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Rick Wormeli
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Middle School, not Junior High
We are a middle school, not a junior version of high school. To be effective in our teaching, we are developmentally appropriate for young adolescents, not for 16- to 18-year-olds nor for 8- and 9-year-olds. There is...
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Rick Wormeli
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Principles First
Effective teachers strive to make their actions reflect their principles.
The afternoon is a rush of activity. Your mind is on hyper switch-tasking mode, denying the growing reality that you'll never get it all done. On the way to the school office to pick up your mail, grab your lunch bag...
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Rick Wormeli
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