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What Is Pedagogy?

…and why it’s important for teachers to consider.

May 26, 2019

What Is Pedagogy?

May 26, 2019

The Language of Teaching:Starting With One Word

Be Impeccable With Your Word !

Jun 19, 2022

The Language of Teaching:Starting With One Word

Jun 19, 2022

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Educate.

“I Can Teach or Do Your Paperwork”

Using the concept of essentialism to be a better teacher.

Apr 28, 2021

“I Can Teach or Do Your Paperwork”

Apr 28, 2021

Published in
Educate.

Camera’s On or Off?

Because most American schools have operated on a tradition of using force (demanding compliance) to teach middle and high school students…

Feb 9, 2021

Camera’s On or Off?

Feb 9, 2021

Are Schools Safe for Teachers?

When your local school committee, NYT Columnist, David Brooks, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Governor Baker, Jeff Riley at DESE and the CDC cite…

Feb 6, 2021

Are Schools Safe for Teachers?

Feb 6, 2021

Some of us have Closets. Some keepVaults.

A close friend expressed to me yesterday that she had been feeling lost, separate and been asking what is wrong with me? She said she had…

Jan 14, 2021

Some of us have Closets. Some keepVaults.

Jan 14, 2021

“Let’s Get Back to Work.”

As children returned to school after their Winter vacations and the end of the most collectively traumatic year of their lives…

Jan 8, 2021

“Let’s Get Back to Work.”

Jan 8, 2021

What is micro-schooling?

About 20 years ago in areas like New York City and San Francisco Bay the cost of private school tuition rose beyond what even wealthy…

Jul 21, 2020

What is micro-schooling?

Jul 21, 2020

Teaching in The New NEW Normal Might be Great

About five years into my career as a teacher, I discovered that there are aspects of chaos that I like, even love. The part I like the…

Jun 18, 2020

Jun 18, 2020

This week on Teacher Talk…..

It’s Been thirty Years

Jun 15, 2020

This week on Teacher Talk…..

Jun 15, 2020

Dancing in the time of Pandemic

The rabbit-hole went straight on like a tunnel for some way, and then dipped suddenly down, so suddenly that Alice had not a moment to…

Mar 21, 2020

Dancing in the time of Pandemic

Mar 21, 2020

The Next Virus will not be biological

“It’s so hard to stay together Passing through revolving doors We need someone to talk to And someone to sweep the floors” Neil Peart, 1984

Mar 15, 2020

The Next Virus will not be biological

Mar 15, 2020

Why Social & Emotional Learning Matters

What is social and emotional learning?

Aug 29, 2019

Why Social & Emotional Learning Matters

Aug 29, 2019

Using the Power of Belief in the Classroom

Using Telepathy on Rats

Aug 27, 2019

Using the Power of Belief in the Classroom

Aug 27, 2019

The Problem with Genre Study

Genres came about because certain social situations in which they are useful recur, so genres are always located in contexts and…

Jun 17, 2019

Jun 17, 2019

What to DO and NOT Do When Teaching Writing.

Recently, I had Amy Verreault, an expert English teacher from Marlborough High School in Massachusetts, as a guest on my talk show for…

Jun 16, 2019

Jun 16, 2019

Should Shakespeare Be Taught in High School?

I teach people who are either going to be teachers or already are teachers, and one of my students recently asked me “Should Shakespeare…

Jun 16, 2019

Should Shakespeare Be Taught in High School?

Jun 16, 2019

EduSpeak: What is your Role as a teacher?

One of the most important things to consider before you start teaching is to know what you think your role is as teacher. And as you…

Nov 14, 2018

Nov 14, 2018

EduSpeak: Why ‘Working’ Parents Dread Science Fairs

…….and what can be done about it

Apr 9, 2018

EduSpeak: Why ‘Working’ Parents Dread Science Fairs

Apr 9, 2018

EduSpeak: The Wu Wei of Classroom Motivation:

The secret to motivating students is to not try to motivate them. The harder you try to motivate students, the less invested they will be.

Apr 5, 2018

EduSpeak: The Wu Wei of Classroom Motivation:

Apr 5, 2018

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John Brown

Clinical Associate Professor of Education at the University of Massachusetts and host of Teacher Talk.

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