op ed in support of teachers and teaching
I haven’t been able to write anything coherent recently aside from a family Christmas letter, until I felt the need to write this piece that found its way into The Salt Lake Tribune. In summary:…
Tag: Teaching
why I ask students to write me an email
Dear Student, You may be wondering why I gave you the assignment to compose an email to me that included a little bit about yourself as well as a few key ingredients in the message….
perfection and mistakes
Later today, the band gets to record in a basement studio in an old historic building, grand staircases and marble floors leading to a retrofitted basement space. We did a mic check—literally to check on…
speaking in tongues
There’s an easy flow that washes through me when I’m teaching, something I don’t attain in private conversation. In the everyday, I’m in the corner; I’m a quarter turn behind meshing gears; words are dragged…
learning relationships: making sense of a dressage clinic
I’d like to be more clever and elegant in this narrative. I would like to write up my experiences with dressage in a slightly coy way, drawing the reader in with some intrigue and mystery….
stepping in: on vulnerability; or, “a physicist walks onto a dance floor…”
A few months ago, Andy was telling me about his work with college students preparing to be elementary school teachers and their experience with his science class. Andy sets up authentic science experiences for these…
student portraits and tales of learning
A couple years ago, a student caught me before my evening Science Teaching Methods class and reminded me about his kidneys. I remembered, but I knew that I really didn’t fully appreciate it all. He…
schooled in coffee
Note: A few months ago now I was traveling, bouncing from one experience to another and all the while trying to stuff them into my head. This is extracted from my notes and attempts to…
best practice
Over the summer there isn’t much chance to have those long conversations about teaching and learning. Instead, friends and I are relegated to social media, posts of New York Times pieces onto Facebook threads, followed…