HowdoUTeach Reading?

First we need to talk about our ends in teaching students to read. Why do we want students to read? This can produce a quick and veritable laundry list of reasons:
1. To read the Word of God.
2. To learn, as reading is fundamental to learning from others mediately. It is a major form of human [...]

Fifth Grade Flies By

I enjoyed my day in Fifth Grade, but had to be called out a few times to be a headmaster, so it was not perfect.
Certainly by now I am seeing that I really have to be in the class to pass the class. I did poorly on most of the tests taken during this [...]

Fourth Grade on Parade

This is that really busy time of year, so my comments after spending a day in 4th grade are once again in bullet form.
A. It was true of Third grade as well, but even more so here in Fourth: I have taught this age, so it does not seem as strange to me. I [...]

HowdoUTeach?

I started this blog quite awhile back now, and post irregularly like I promised when I started it. But I am getting a lot of push to try something that I don’t think anyone can do: to write practical pieces on the means of teaching. The title of the blog does imply that [...]