by Heather MacCorkle | Sep 1, 2013 | Education, Learning, Teaching
This video talks about the current state of education in the United States today and how it has destroyed creativity. Related articles Do schools kill creativity? Sir Ken Robinson: How to escape education’s death valley The case for creative education...
by Heather MacCorkle | Aug 20, 2013 | Education, Learning, Teaching
This is going to be a quick post. There has been a lot going on at work and home, but I wanted to post something to keep this idea going. Here’s an outline of what I would do on day one of teaching the novel. Debrief I would only be able to do this...
by Heather MacCorkle | Aug 12, 2013 | Education, Learning, Teaching
Teachers: Have you ever tried to teach a novel without reading it first? Well, I’m going to try to, but since I’m not teaching at the moment, I will have to pretend. Visualization exercises are always good for lesson planning, right? The...
by Heather MacCorkle | Jun 12, 2013 | Education, Learning, Teaching
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. – Chinese Proverb The other day, during an internal training session, the question arose, “How can we ensure that students are learning all they are supposed...
by Heather MacCorkle | May 22, 2013 | Education, Learning
Winston Churchill had this to say about math. “Letters, after all, had only got to be known and when they stood together in a certain way one recognized their formation and that it meant a certain sound. But the figures were tied into all sorts of tangles and...
