I’m trying something different this year. I’m not assigning novels and telling everyone which pages to read, having class discussions about the themes, providing background knowledge, making vocabulary lists, or asking “comprehension” questions that I mark for a grade. This y...

Dan Willingham presents some good debunking of dubious educational theories, fads, pop neuroscience and the like: That learning styles are very much over-rated and should not influence classroom practice. There is individual variation in modalities (visual, auditory, kinesthenic) but the important t...

Obeisances to Srila Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada & The Hare Krishna Maha Mantra   nama om vishnu-padaya krishna-preshthaya bhu-tale shrimate bhaktivedanta- svamin iti namine namas te sarasvate deve gaura-vani-pracharine nirvishesha-shunyavadi- pashcatya-desha-tarine   hare krishna ...

Obeisances to Srila Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada & The Hare Krishna Maha Mantra   nama om vishnu-padaya krishna-preshthaya bhu-tale shrimate bhaktivedanta- svamin iti namine namas te sarasvate deve gaura-vani-pracharine nirvishesha-shunyavadi- pashcatya-desha-tarine   hare krishna ...

I’ve been quoting the work of Bill Gates and Gates Foundation for years at my Scottish Association of Geography Teacher student talks on Population and Development and Health. At the 2009 TED talks Gates gives an excellent presentation on Malaria, with some startling facts. For example, did you kn...

Is Jewish Education Inherently More Expensive? There is a common belief in the Orthodox world that a day school/yeshiva education is by design simply more expensive to offer than the education offered in public schools as the Yeshiva offers a "dual curriculum." As a person who not only attended publ...

Gove tries on his new school uniform Have we all read Cam's schools interview? He doesn't exactly pledge to send his own kids to state secondary schools, but he does pledge this: "We've got to bust open the state monopoly on education and allow new schools to be established. It's what's happened in ...

Record unemployment in Spain. Rioting in Greece. Strikes over foreign workers in the UK. German troops to be deployed in France. And you can be thrown in jail for photographing the police in Britain. That’s the news from Europe. In the USA, there’s the Obama story. And there’s also Obama, and ...

I had never heard of Hyon Gak Sunim, who was born Paul Muenzen, but this little article from Ovi Magazine makes him seem like an interesting teacher, especially since I too come from a Catholic background. Below, there is also a video of him teaching. Hyon Gak Sunim's teachings about life and Buddhi...

in an earlier life, Dr. M. served as chair of a large academic department at a state university out here in the American west.  On the whole, the teachers that Dr. M. nominally supervised did their work very well.  They were responsible, self-motivated, liked their teaching a...