by transcendingpedagogy | Apr 1, 2024 | Pedagogy that Works, Teaching Ideas
For the last few years, I have “swapped out” my argument research paper for what I’ve labeled a “tension paper.” Rather than ask students to take a position on something – even when we’re asking them to understand and...
by transcendingpedagogy | Jan 9, 2024 | Pedagogy that Works, Teaching Ideas
When I started my teaching career, I was focused on embodying expertise and operating from a position of authority in my classes and lesson designs. No more. Many days – like today – my students become teachers themselves. In this case, there’s a...
by transcendingpedagogy | Jan 4, 2024 | Pedagogy that Works, Teaching Ideas
Mid-week, mid-unit. Lately, I’m feeling like I’m always in the middle of things. I think it’s in part because once I get a new adventure underway, I’m continually deepening, enhancing, expanding, re-routing, and revising it. Sometimes maybe...
by transcendingpedagogy | Jan 20, 2022 | Pedagogy that Works
My AP students are studying sonnets, and learning about how to read them to discover their riches. This is not to say one can’t simply read a sonnet, love it or hate it, and move on. This is to say there is an artistry to the form – an artistry to any form...
by transcendingpedagogy | Jan 11, 2022 | Pedagogy that Works
Tuesdays are generally the hardest day of the week for me. Mondays are hard for most, Wednesday is the halfway point, Thursday is “one more day” and Friday, well, TGIF, right? But today was different. Don’t get me wrong – it wasn’t...
by transcendingpedagogy | Jan 7, 2022 | Pedagogy that Works
Snow days are a rite of passage; children wake to learn or sometimes go to bed knowing) school has been cancelled and in its place is manifested one of the great equations of childhood: snow + no school = joy. I’m not writing to argue that. When schools (and...
