Tag Archives: teaching

Dealing with Painful Critiques

Posted on October 19, 2025 by knlistman

Educators often do not recognize their most creative students. I witnessed examples of this behavior as teachers described which poems they preferred in an anthology written by students. The cheerful rhyming poems were often considered better than those dealing with … Continue reading →

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Are You What You Read?

Posted on March 28, 2025 by knlistman

We don’t seem to be recovering from the drop in literacy within the United States among school age children in 2019 and following years. The standard response is blame the problem on children not receiving an adequate education during the … Continue reading →

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Who is responsible for learning?

Posted on September 16, 2014 by knlistman

One of my friends mentions the local swim team as a possible activity for my children in the summer. For the first one it was a good fit. When younger he had taken a swim class, it  had only two … Continue reading →

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Teaching academics like athletics?

Posted on September 9, 2014 by knlistman

Sometimes students wish academic classes were more like performance based sports, but how would it work? How do they respond differently to coaching for physical skill versus teaching a cognitive skill? Warm ups In athletics students spend time warming up … Continue reading →

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