Every year, either our school, our district or the textbook company trains teachers in a new, revolutionary method of teaching reading.  Inevitably, there are PowerPoint slides, CD-ROMS and worksheets that students fill out.  Often, the workshop provider offers a ten-step process for decoding and analyzing text.  Typically, the mode ...

I'm sitting at home right now attempting to turn my own lesson plans into the heavy-handed, district-imposed, board-approved lesson plan format.  Supposedly it follows the Madeline Hunter format (though I remember using her lesson plan format in college and it was different) My issue is this: I can't fit my lessons into that format.  ...

I love how Socrates always ends his dialogues unanswered.  The end seems to be a multifacted mystery rather than a three-point outline.  Similarly, throughout the gospels, Jesus tells parables that confound and confuse his audience.  It seems counterintuitive that two of the greatest teachers of all times were both difficult to ...