Or, where do grades come from? Have you ever considered what, exactly, do grades measure? They measure something, but can they really measure everything? And of what they do measure, is it fair, is it meaningful, and does it represent what we really want students to achieve? At the A+ Club we work with students […]
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A Furor but in whose interest? A blog of mine provoked a bit of a furor two summers ago when I sat in as guest-blogger Rick Hess’ “Straight Up” blog on Education Week: Teacher Pay (Aug 3, 2011) Huffington Post ran with this title: Michael Bromley, Washington, D.C. Teacher: Teachers Are Overpaid and on the two or three […]
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Rick Hess kindly invited me back to step in during his vacation last week to rant and rave about education on his national blog at Education Week.Two years ago I got in trouble with some of Rick’s readers for suggesting that some teachers are overpaid. A shocking idea that, it seems, but my point was […]
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“Why’s that teacher do that?” Ever had a teacher that makes no sense? Ever not understood why the grade was what it was? Ever wanted to just given up on it? As a teacher, every day I wrote up my lesson plans starting with two reminders: 1) Never Assume Prior Knowledge! 2) Learning = Relevancy! The […]
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Benefits derived from a contract are called “consideration.” The Common Law holds that contracts that don’t deliver some benefit, or consideration, to both parties are invalid. Let’s say that you sign a contract for lawn service, but you have no lawn. The courts would not hold you to that contract because you couldn’t possibly benefit […]
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Feeding back: constant, comprehensive & positive feedback Student Success Podcast No. 7, Nov. 6, 2013 Today’s Guest: none Bromley discusses the essential process of feedback. Feedback is simple human interaction. And these interactions so define the teacher-student relationship. Students will benefit from understanding their role in this relationship. And teachers, too, need to maintain positive, effective interactions […]
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My teacher is a toaster? Heh, students, here’s a little inside information you should know: teachers are people, too. Shocking, I know. But true. When my daughter was in my school, I’d bring her along to the watering hole we teachers escaped to on Fridays. She’d sit at a nearby table and enjoy bar food and a soda. After […]
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Bribery? Maybe, but flattery will work better. Seriously. The highest and most effective form of teacher flattery is asking a teacher for help. The next highest is actually doing your work. You meet teacher expectations, you get an A. Easy enough. Well, let’s start from there, anyway. So what do teachers really want? And how […]
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Why are we teaching kids to use 1970s technology? Ever hear of Day Timer? Yes, the personal agenda book still exists, but only for a few old school types. Except in schools, where the kids are supposed to use agenda books, and it’s all their damned fault if they don’t. Seriously. At the A+ Club, […]
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Sorry, but homework really does matter. Annoying, yes. Boring, usually. Important for your academic success? Very much so. See below for some important reasons why you probably should be doing your homework. 1. Grades 2. Having done your homework makes the next class time more meaningful, more understandable and less boring 3. Doing homework leads to […]
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Scaffolding students out of procrastination: teacher interview with Mike Cahir Student Success Podcast No. 16 Feb. 10, 2014, recorded Feb 8, 2014 Today’s Guest: Mike Cahir, Teacher and Department Chair, English Department, Archbishop Carroll High School, Washington, DC In this interview, Mike rejoins us to discuss procrastination from the point of view of a high […]
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Can a teacher really expect you to learn it the first time? Teachers forget that what they’re teaching they already know and that it’s usually the first time you’ve ever heard it. This is why when a teacher is making sense to you it’s probably because you already know it. At the A+ Club we call […]
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I hate my teacher! Teachers, I can’t tell you how much I hear from kids that they’re ready to learn, but their teacher keeps getting in the way. Yep, we hear it all the time, “I hate my teacher!” But if we listen behind the angry words, what kids are really saying is that they’d […]
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In business, the 80/20 rule states that 20% or your clients will expend the resources it takes to support the other 80%. In other words, 20% of your clients will be needy, while the other 80% will be on autopilot. With teaching, one would be thrilled to have 80% on autopilot. Imagine if! Teachers 20/80 […]
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We call them “short cuts.” I don’t know why. If the long way isn’t necessary, why take it? Kids sure won’t. So teachers, are you just setting up unwanted shortcuts, or are you creating useful, relevant paths for your students? Best Laid Plans? Actually, no. In fact, most roads are created along lines of least resistance. […]
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Welcome back to the late work game! First semester is up and teachers and students across the country are recovering from that last minute freak out: get that missing work in! Stressed kids near collapse trying to dig something out, anything to get the grades up. Desperate teachers giving up all pretense of syllabus rules […]
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Every teacher’s goal is student engagement, both in and out of class The more our students act on our lessons and expectations outside of class, the better they function in class. Nothing new there. And the difficulty to achieve it in part explains the annual Professional Development (PD) flogging with the latest, greatest solution to […]
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The number one teacher complaint is time. Introducing “Tips for Teachers,” a series of blog posts, videos, lessons, and ideas from School4Schools.com LLC on helping teachers get through their routines and days more efficiently – so they can focus on what they love and what they’re there for: teaching kids. Tips for Teachers will focus […]
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Even if you’ve never heard of OneNote, you probably already own it. And if you do, you already own one of the best organizational tools out there. Today’s Tip for Teachers is how to use OneNote, a free program from Microsoft that is a potential game-changer for teachers. What One Note Solves for Teachers Paperwork […]
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Parents and teachers usually conceive of student procrastination as putting off homework or projects until the last minute. It is. We also tend to think of disruptive classroom behavior as “disobedience” or “acting out” over some issue, from disconnection or boredom to serious underlying troubles. Which it is. But those same processes of delay and […]
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