Reframing Challenge

In my post Responding to Challenge, I begin with the most important part of handling challenge in a student: the teacher. It is the teacher’s job to reframe arising conflict as needed so that the dynamic is more effective for teaching. Often this begins with de-escalation.
Deep teaching can evoke resistance, especially when it [...]

October 29th, 2007 | Category: Other Voices | One comment

Cleaning the Lens

As teachers, we have a hard time teaching what we cannot see. Not seeing these things, we tend to teach around them. We pass on to our students patterns of perception that preclude seeing them. We re-create our own blind spots in our students.
In my last post, The Lens, I talked about how [...]

October 24th, 2007 | Category: Deep Teaching | Leave a comment

Deep Teaching: The Lens

This is the fifth article in this series.
The subject we teach is like a lens through which we show students the world. When we change the focus of the lens, size, polarization, and so on, our subject can show the world in different ways, in different lights, at different depths.
And thus the subject is [...]

October 13th, 2007 | Category: Deep Teaching | 3 comments

Reflections on a Year

Today marks the one year anniversary since I began posting my writing to this site. While an anniversary can be little more than an accident of the calendar, it can also be a means to notice change, to mark passages, to reflect on work done.
Some of you have asked me if my goal is [...]

October 9th, 2007 | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Deep Teaching: Seeking Truth

This is the fourth article in this series.
Some say that all physical creation starts with intention and thus the internal is what is true. Some say that without physical manifestation, intention is nothing, and thus only the external is true.
Which is true? They are both true. They are neither true.
A flowing river [...]

October 8th, 2007 | Category: Deep Teaching | Leave a comment