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A Light Touch

The more important what you are teaching, the more important it is to evoke the student as a motive force. If you believe you must push the student constantly to get them to learn, what happens when you stop pushing?

Deep and transformative results need the lightest possible touch. The student must be the one [...]

More about Technology in the Classroom

It is always tempting to define ourselves by the tools we have – or lack – rather than by we do with them. Yes, a writing implement is necessary to teach writing, and a computer is required to teach programming, but a poor teacher can make worthless the best of these tools, and a great [...]

Worship as a Barrier

In response to When the Student Worships the Teacher I was asked how a teacher might tell if a student’s worship is standing in the way of their learning. The implication is that we as teachers examine the student to see whether the student’s learning is blocked by worship and if so we do something [...]

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