This writing will start on the firing line at a local gun club and finish on the teaching line in every Wisconsin classroom. I have watched my friend Buzz when he shoots trap and skeet at the local gun club. … Continue reading
An Expert Pedagogue
Finding really strong teachers is not easy. Principals and superintendents must look closely at every teacher and teacher candidate to find expert pedagogues. If a teacher was an onion you would find that, as in a bushel of onions, teachers … Continue reading
To Cause Learning – the Power of Causation
Teachers cause students to learn. Let’s expand this. Expert teachers use their mastery of instructional strategies and learning to “cause” all students to demonstrate their incremental mastery of significant and enduring knowledge, skills and problem solving strategies and their capacity … Continue reading
Adults Muck With Education Not Learning
The discussion about public education is blessed and cursed by the fact that most adults in the United States are educated. Let’s investigate several facts regarding this state of affairs. Fact one is this – most adults have some level … Continue reading
Expert Teachers Only
“I don’t want to be my heart surgeon’s first patient,” is a way of saying “experts only wanted here.” Perhaps in the circumstance of heart failure in the high plains of Nevada on a road known as “America’s loneliest highway” … Continue reading