What Can We Learn from Laggards?
Laggard – n. One that lags or lingers; a straggler. A few years ago I was working in schools helping to introduce a new behavior management system to teachers. After several months,… Read More
Author: Eoin Bastable
Can Virtual Reality Improve How Teachers Are Trained?
(Teacher walks to the front of a classroom.) Teacher: Good morning everyone, let’s get started. Student: This sucks! Teacher: Excuse me? (grimacing, eyes narrowing) Student: You heard me (student glares)…. Read More
Freeze-Change-(Re)freeze & Repeat
“If you want to truly understand something, try to change it,” said Kurt Lewin, one of the early pioneers of social psychology and action research. He spent years using scientific… Read More
Should I Stay or Should I Go? How Do We Retain Our Teachers?
“Should I stay or should I go? If I go, there will be trouble, And if I stay it will be double. So come on and let me know.” –… Read More
How Fractions Help Us See the Big Picture
My oldest daughter is a fifth-grader and is learning about fractions and percentages in her math class this year. She made a big conceptual leap from whole numbers to fractions…. Read More