Perspectives
A Teacher’s View: Remote Teaching Doesn’t Feel Like Teaching. Six Steps Toward Putting the Nuance Back Into Classroom Interactions.
In any normal year, when I ask teachers, “What’s school like this year?” they talk about whiteboards, desks, school buses and the cafeteria.
This is not a normal year. And the answers to this question are no longer normal.
The truth is that school is absolutely nothing like what it used to be.
Teachers Are Working Hard to Keep Bonds with Students.
Relationships are everything in the classroom. Research proves the connection between cognition and emotion. Experts speak of the importance of purpose in young people’s lives and the key role teachers play in their students’ self-discovery; one even defines the optimal classroom as a tribe of shared learners partaking in a collective effort.
Emotion, cognition, tribe, purpose — at this time, teachers are transferring these elements of the human classroom to the technological classroom.
Why Fathers Need to Be More Involved in Their Children's School World.
It was a typical end-of-year parent-teacher conference. The parents—a mother and father—and I shook hands. We looked one another in the eyes. They thanked me for my advice on their child. I thanked them for accepting it. They went on their way.
A few minutes later, there was a knock on my door. I was surprised to see the dad poke his head in.
Your Hidden Power
Host Doug Stephan welcomes Author/Educator Nat Damon welcomes Author/Educator Damon. During his two-year London sabbatical, 25-year independent school educator researched and wrote a book about relational teaching titled, "Time to Teach: Time to Reach" - Expert Teachers Give Voice to the Power of Relational Teaching.
Time to Teach: Time to Reach is informed by over 100 interviews with K-12 school educators in the US and abroad.