Making Curriculum Matter to Students
By Erin Nerlino February 1, 2023 Why do I need to know this?” “When will I ever need this again?” As a high school teacher, I regularly hear these questions from students. Sometimes their frequency makes them easy to dismiss as complaints, but buried within them are two important questions for teachers: (1) Does each […]
Chapter 1. Setting Objectives and Providing Feedback
particular person or place, or do something else? Without a specific objective, you could spend your time on something that isn’t important or that makes it difficult to know whether your time in the city was worth the trip. Being in a classroom without knowing the direction for learning is similar to taking a purposeless […]
Starting Strong
Establishing the “what” and the “why” in the first 10–15 minutes pays high dividends. My high school biology teacher had a sign taped to her desk that read “Failure to plan on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine.” After becoming a teacher, I realized that when it came to lessons, failure to […]