Teacher Challenges

How many students are in today’s classrooms? The simplest answer is “too many.” The thought of teaching and reaching every single student is often insurmountable, if not impossible, for numerous reasons: class size, time, ability, resources, testing and regulatory requirements. These are merely a sample of the challenges faced […]

Paradigm Shift in Education

“Research is the bricks. Our informed, educated intuition is the mortar. It’s impossible to construct a worthy structure without either one.” – Dr. Michael Allen, ezine January 26, 2006

The most significant issue relating to learning is the relatively recent paradigm shift in education. This change is illustrated in the way in […]

Learning Anywhere, Anytime

We know that younger children engage in problem solving before they know addition and they partake in sophisticated reasoning and questioning about stories before they can decode words (Peterson, 1989).
Regardless of whether or not we like it, or even admit it, technological advances have changed and continue to change the world. Today, we […]

What Influences Learning?

There is change in our role as teacher that’s reflected in society and technical advances insisting we must prepare 21st century learners. This is critical in our roles both as teachers and learners across K-12 and all academic areas.
“What influences what we learn?” and “How are influencers determined?”
These answers are not the same […]

Teachers as Learners

“I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.”
 
– Socrates

Educators and support professionals work in many capacities including and no way limited to: public schools, private schools, charter schools, tutoring, business, home schooling, parenting, training, mentoring, administration, colleges, universities, government, foreign countries, virtual schools, performance […]