by Jordan Catapano | Apr 13, 2020 | General
What would you want your own child to experience in school? I ask myself this question regularly, because I am working with other people’s children and know parents are rightfully concerned about their kids’ educational experience. My kids are lucky...
by Jordan Catapano | Apr 9, 2020 | Effective Strategies
“I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask the fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.” -Eleanor Roosevelt “How long does this paper have to be?” “Is this for homework?” “Will it have to be typed?” “Will this be...
by Jordan Catapano | Apr 6, 2020 | Effective Strategies
“Still, thou art blest, compar’d wi’ me!The present only toucheth thee:But Och! I backward cast my e‘e On prospects drear!An’ forward tho’ I canna see, I guess an’ fear!” -Robert Burns, from “To a Mouse” Teaching is about being there, being physically right there in...
by Jordan Catapano | Apr 2, 2020 | Effective Strategies
“Discussion is impossible with someone who claims not to seek truth, but to already possess it.” -Romain Rolland Do you ever feel like you do all the talking? Do you feel like your students tune you out, or are disengaged, or just rely on you to do the thinking...
by Jordan Catapano | Mar 30, 2020 | Assessment
When in our classrooms we can facilitate a “testing environment,” which traditionally means students are silent, tests are passed out and collected, and teachers supervise the process making little possibility for academic dishonesty. But we cannot replicate this...
