Dale Carnegie's classic book How to Win Friends and Influence People has helped my teaching as much as anything I've ever read. I can't recommend it highly enough. I've worn out two copies over the last 40 years and I'm working on number three. Get this book! Here are the [...]
Here is another guest post from my friend, Gerry Wass on his MULTI-LEVEL CLASSROOM experience: “La preuve que il a existé c’était qu’il était ravissant.” "The proof that he existed was that he was lovely.” –Antoine de Saint-Exupéry A year and a half after retiring, I continue to get [...]
The school year gets long in the spring. Some days it seems like they just aren't getting it as quickly as we would like them to. But take heart, my friends, they know more than it seems like they do. Hang in there. "Comprehension precedes production... by a mile." [...]
In his book Healthy Aging, Andrew Weil, MD, describes what we can all do to protect our brains throughout our lives. On pages 284-286 Weil writes about the protective value of learning another language. There are several comments that stand out in this section for language educators. The words [...]
Mindset, by Carol Dweck What It’s About: Fixed mindset versus growth mindset. Carl Dweck shows us that no one is doomed by heredity or experience and that everyone can get improve. Too many of us do not believe that at a core level—too many think they are stuck: “That’s [...]
This saying occurs at the intersection of Chris Biffle's Whole Brain Teaching, Carol Dweck's Mindset, and Alina Filipescu's password idea. This was the password for last week in all class levels as I get kids accustomed to saying this to one another when they make a mistake. Here it [...]