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In Chapter 6 from the Robin Hunter’s book, Mastery Teaching, he writes about the importance of understanding that neuroscience informs us how to think about teaching and learning. Neuroscience explains that different parts of our brain are responsible for processing information. The left hemisphere is responsible for analytical and sequential processing, while the right hemisphere…
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Krista Tippett interviewed Brene Brown on On Being in a fascinating piece, Strong Back, Soft Front, Wild Heart, dealing with the question: how can we find our way into truly belonging in our communities? She makes the case that the need to belong is a uniquely human experience, referencing the work of John Cacioppo from the…
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I have always struggled with the practice in schools of ability tracking students. Gifted, not gifted, honors, non-honors, AP, non-AP, athletic, not-athletic, and other designations I may be missing. I don’t mean to suggest by setting up the polarity between the positive (gifted) and the negative (not gifted), that it is only black and white. …
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In Chapter 5 of Robin Hunter’s book, Madeline Hunter’s Mastery Teaching, he reflects on the importance of providing students with information before they can work to build concepts, make inferences, or engage in higher-order thinking. School and life need to provide students with sufficiently rich experiences where they can build a body of knowledge to think…
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