John Walker

Make Sure Your Child Has A Job

Dec 14, 2015

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This article on the link of your child having a job and being successful in high school and college was covered in a recent Professional Development. Ostensibly an AVID assignment, it appears to have been chosen to provide a discussion point for a class. Young people who have held jobs are better students because they…

Ways You’ll Know You’re Teaching Your Ass Off

Dec 12, 2015

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John Walker

in Teaching

This post resonated with me, it was from @TeachThought You’ve spent as much (or more) time redesigning assessments than you have “re-teaching.” You’ve cried at least twice. You know the reading level of every single student, no matter what content area you teach, or how many students you teach. Students grow more confident as the…

Help Students Think About What They Think

Dec 1, 2015

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John Walker

in Teaching

A recent Professional Development (PD) got me thinking about what kind of questions I might ask to extend students into the world of metacognition, I ran across this article on TeachThought that had a list of questions. I am going to try some and see how they work for me. Reflection & Collaboration 1. What…