Some lessons don’t just get a little off-track; they fall apart before your eyes. The explanation is muddled, the activity is poor, the answers are missing, and the lesson falls apart before it even starts. To a novice, a lesson…
Repetition without differentiation is merely an illusion of progress. Repetition is a good way to fake teaching. The best way to become a better teacher is to practice differentiating within repetition. For each repetition of a short teaching session, repeat…
New feedback often falls into one of two traps: Either the feedback writer tries to fix everything all at once, and the teacher being taught becomes overwhelmed and discouraged; or the feedback remains too soft, and next time, the teacher…
Beginning teachers almost always begin their first lesson by including too many components: a definition, a demonstration, several examples, multiple practice questions, a discussion, and a review. This seems the most efficient use of a single teaching practice, but it…
