Homework
What did your education professors in your teacher prep programs during college tell you about homework?
We didn’t talk about it at all, except for our classes we had homework we were expected to complete between sessions.
For something we were taught to take for granted as a default part of the education experience, homework is surprisingly complicated and controversial…
Show, Don’t Tell
Why were movable type and the printing press two of the most important inventions in human history?
How would you teach this to your students?
During student teaching eleven years ago, this was a question I needed to get my pupils to answer. The conventional way would be to have students write down in their notebooks, “Because these inventions helped make printed works like books more available to everyone. Spreading knowledge, learning, increased smartness, important things, reasons and stuff, etc.”
But that isn’t what I did…
