“It ain’t the six minutes, it’s what happens in the six minutes.” This quote from the 1985 wrestling-themed movie, Visionquest, has stuck with me ever since high school. It does have some pretty raw sailorish language within, so I chose… Continue Reading
Choices… decisions… education. Three simple words deeply embedded within my world. For years I have been amazed while reflecting on the cascade of decisions a teacher makes in even one class period with a typical group of 20 or so… Continue Reading
What highway? Just what does the “21st Century classroom” actually look like? Do you even know? What do you actually picture when you close your eyes and imagine? Does your classroom reflect this ideal? What is the divide between the… Continue Reading
Questioning The art and science of teacher questioning is a powerful force in any flavor of direct instruction. Marzano and associates (2001) found a roughly 22 percentile gain in student achievement when skillful questioning was an instructional focus. Furthermore, a… Continue Reading