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Tips for Teachers: a quick & easy voice narrator for reading digital text out load


Sleepers Awake: a celebration of J. Reilly Lewis, master organist, conductor & educator

Common Core Crazy? Making sense of the viral common core math rounding problem

Teach don’t preach: politicizing the classroom is not just wrong, it’s bad teaching

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Is it the role of a teacher to impart information or to empower students with the skills needed to find information on their own? When a teacher professes a political position in a classroom, student learning suffers a short-circuit. Teachers have strong rights of expression, although courts will uphold teacher dismissal for indoctrination (see this pdf from […]

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Is your student an extrinsic or intrinsic learner? And how to bring out the best in each to overcome the other

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So how can we bridge the gap between students who only do as they’re told and those who learn only what they find interesting? As students rise through secondary schools, teacher expectations and demands can either tax or reward student learning and behavioral types, in this case, the extrinsically versus intrinsically motivated student: Extrinsic learners […]

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Teach don’t preach pt 2: Confirmation Bias & the unintented teacher preacher

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Teachers, does your Confirmation Bias shut down student learning? Having scolded teachers who politicize their classrooms in my post, “Teach Don’t Preach: politicizing the classroom is not just wrong, it’s bad teaching,” it begs the question of what to do with teachers who don’t know that they’re preaching not teaching and not just with politics. […]

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The Learning Process

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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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What about the 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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Sitting in on the “Straight Talk” blog

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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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Prior Knowlege (PK), relevancy & teacher expectations

Due consideration, and not just a syllabus

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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

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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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Teachers are people, too (sort of) & how you should take advantage of it

What do teachers really want?

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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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Agenda books and schools: making good little secretaries


Why homework matters: top five (5) reasons you probably should do your homework

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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

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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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Teaching it twice: ask your teachers to explain it again & in a different way

Teaching or learning: teachers, which would you prefer? If you want it, sell it!

Teachers and the 80/20 rule: attending to the wrong clients?

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