“If history were taught in the form of stories it would never be forgotten.” — Rudyard Kipling I have always thought of history as one big story of us. But somehow that idea seems lost on most students. It’s a shame. I try to teach history in the form of stories. Unfortunately pesky things like [...]
In the grand scheme of education a debate has been raging for hundreds of years: what style of curriculum do we implement? Do we go with a classical liberal arts/Greek and Roman base or a modern style with technology and integration of topics? I am sure many teachers have an opinion, but usually we have [...]
I have a love/hate relationship with parents, and the scary things is that I am a parent. How do teachers deal with parents and then how do parents deal with teachers? It seems we have arrived at an impasse in the relationship. Let’s start with parents…. What is our job in the education [...]