Maggie Hos-McGrane is a veteran teacher with lots of international teaching experience. I read her blog all of the time, she is one of the people in my google reader where I spend all of my spare time catching up with the great things people are doing in education.
This post really caught my eye for a couple of reasons. First, she admits that some of the things she has done in her classroom needed to be examined. “ After doing the Harvard Project Zero summer school over 10 years ago I went back to work and ditched about 70% of the tasks I’d been doing up till then, having looked at these tasks in a new light and found that they were engaging, perhaps, but in fact not really worth doing as they weren’t contributing to the learning, didn’t involve much creativity or critical thinking and didn’t have much connection with what the students were interested in learning. “ This is what I also try to do as an ITRT in every classroom that I visit. I just want people to examine what they are doing, and critically think if it is worth the time and effort.
Secondly, she talks about choices that students get to make in their own learning. Please check out this fabulous article, and thank you Maggie for giving me permission to share your blog.
