When You Want To Throw Your Hands Up In The Air…
One of the hardest things that students go through are periods where they just want to give up. Throw in the towel. Buy an essay. Cheat...
Stressing Out After The Exam
"What Did you put for number 9?" It is so easy to get overwhelmed with stress AFTER you take a test. After all, many students rush to...
Bottom-up and Top-down Learning
Bottom-up learning is all about trial-and-error. What’s useful about that? Simple: feedback. Direct, meaningful, applicable feedback....
Communicating Science
This is a continuation of the previous post. It should come as no surprise to scientists to find that many people, who have received poor...
Understanding Science
Sometimes I feel there is nothing more misunderstood in education today than science. And I don’t mean that too few kids are learning...
Understanding Change
We all know that we change as we get older. But often times, we are happy to be blissfully unaware of where we have changed, until...
Learning to Trust Yourself
When I work with students as a tutor, I see that one of the things that people struggle with the most is learning to trust themselves....
“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.”
(Repost from conversationswithduckie October 23, 2012) “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.” I stumbled upon this...