Education

Here are all the posts so far that I've composed on the topic of education:

My very popular series on staying organized as a teacher. These are practical, hands-on tips broken down into several sub-topics, such as organizing your web-based resources, organizing your files on your hard drive, organizing your worksheets year after year, and organizing your cloud storage, such as Google Drive.

I asked whether teachers themselves are showing the smarts they need when working with computers. I would like to think that every teacher acknowledges his or her part in making complicated things knowable to our students, but what about making complicated things knowable to ourselves?

Foreign Language teachers: What sort of homework are you assigning, and why? There's surprisingly little research about this, so I created my own survey.

The MYP system of Phases in Language Acquisition has many, many nuances depending on the languages you teach, the size of your program, how advanced your students are, etc. The IB's job is rarely to coach schools through these things, and we're often on our own figuring them out. Here are my notes on the matter.

A passionate plea for a free and open speaking hour for learners of a foreign language. The time in class is only a down payment on the amount of practice students need to develop their speaking at pace with their receptive skills. The post is in German.

A stance against innovation for innovation's sake. I wouldn't want an optimism towards not-yet-understood or even -understandable technologies to usurp basic tenets of good education, and neither would you.

How to stay organized as a teacher both online and off. I give several tips for organizing your resources across the web, in the cloud, in your inbox, on your computer's hard-drive or server, from your students, and on your desk.

Finally, here's a statement of educational philosophy that I composed in 2015; I still believe these things.

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