Teaching Naked

http://chronicle.com/article/Teach-Naked-Effort-Strips/47398/

Charlie Chaplin and Modern Times

My family recently chuckled its way through Charlie Chaplin’s last silent film, and one of his best, “Modern Times.”  One scene near the beginning has our hero at work in a modern factory, with some sort of “widgets” sailing by him on a conveyor belt.  His job is to tighten two bolts as they go [...]

Standing on Giants

Read the following recently on “The Endeavor” blog and because I have used Newton’s quote so much, just had to post it here:
Isaac Newton famously said
If I have seen farther than others it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants.
Later Mathematician R. W. Hamming added
Mathematicians stand on each other’s shoulders while computer [...]

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 [...]

Teaching Them to Obey…

I have recently blogged on the issue of obedience over on my general blog ruminating on Bishop Ryle’s great text, “The Duties of Parents.” It is on my mind a lot these days both due to having four boys of my own and due to my position as head of a school. I [...]

Has My Two Mommys Made it to Mainstream?

I started to read this article, then I kept reading, then I reread it, and I still find it really tough to fathom.  The author’s last line is about all I could say as well, “Think about this.  Think real hard!”
http://www.townonline.com/newton/opinion/view.bg?articleid=610359

Teaching to the Steriods Test

Is it wrong for kids to seek every advantage possible in the College Entrance exams? Does this allow for the rich to get richer and the poor to remain poor? Are SAT prep courses the academic equivalent of steroids in sports? Provoking questions that I want to explore as time and contemplation with willing folks [...]

Standard Deviations

First, read this article. Then let’s talk about it for a few minutes.
Let me see if I get this all into my head correctly. We are going to come up with some tests that determine how one student compares with all others in his “grade.” We will pose to the student a series of questions [...]

Peevish about Percentiles

I just love the mentality ol’ Gilbert Highet states in his work, The Art of Teaching. He explains his title by stating,
“I believe that teaching is an art, not a science. It seems to me very dangerous to apply the aims and methods of science to human beings as individuals, although a statistical principle can [...]