by Heather MacCorkle | Jan 7, 2014 | Education, Learning, Politics, Teaching
In the post on standards-based grading, I asked a couple of questions at the end of the post. Basically, I was asking about the difference between learning and academic success. If you are new to education, you may have heard the term, “doing school” or...
by Heather MacCorkle | Dec 25, 2013 | Education, Learning, Teaching
In the interest of full disclosure, I work for a company that develops, markets, and sells software to K-12 institutions, but the opinions expressed in this post are my own and the company is not responsible for them. The software includes an SIS (Student Information...
by Heather MacCorkle | Dec 20, 2013 | Education, Learning, Teaching, Writing
I finished the book! First, it’s good that we did not read the introduction first, or I think that is the lens that we would be looking through as we read the story. We would know that people did not consider the work to be a stellar piece of...
by Heather MacCorkle | Dec 16, 2013 | Education, Learning, Teaching
See on Scoop.it – 21st Century Education and Teaching {12 Days: 12 Tools} has been fun to share with you. Hopefully I’ve shared tools that will be of benefit to you and your colleagues. I trust as well that many of these strategies will contribute to...
by Heather MacCorkle | Dec 8, 2013 | Education, Learning, Teaching
See on Scoop.it – 21st Century Education and Teaching ‘It doesn’t matter how my students learn best.’ Heather MacCorkle Edick’s insight: The comments on this article are actually more interesting than the article itself. There are a...
by Heather MacCorkle | Nov 16, 2013 | Education, Learning, Teaching
I find it interesting that I could not keep up with the idea I had about teaching a novel by modeling the process by which one actually engages the content for the first time. I have not picked up the book again. The book is interesting, but the way it was being...
