Tag: learn

  • I Learn Best

    I Learn Best

    ……when I teach. You teachers know what I am talking about.  If you have never taught before, you will realize that the best way to learn is to teach.  I’m not saying anything new.  There have been many people out there that have written about this, and I absolutely love…

  • Good Decisions

    Good Decisions

    An employee once asked the president of the company – what did he did that eventually gave him the opportunity to become the president of the company.  The president said, “Make good decisions.” Great advice, but as he thought more about it, he wondered how someone learns to make good…

  • Identity and My Friends

    Identity and My Friends

    I have talked about identity so much with people that my friends are starting to also think about identity.  What’s great about it is that they think about things that I would never think about.  My friend Mo constantly tells me that I need to blog about different aspects of…

  • Listen and Learn

    Listen and Learn

    As a teacher, I get to talk – alot.  I get to fill a whole hour.  I don’t have to ask a single question.  I can just talk, and they have to sit there and follow along.  It’s kinda nice.  It’s a little addicting. I love it when I get…

  • The Metaphor of a Whole New World

    I love this idea/concept.  I love it because I have been introduced to a whole new world of discovery and learning.  And when it’s new – it’s like an undiscovered world filled with adventure and new experiences. When you are exploring a whole new world, there are no maps.  You…

  • Who Do You Think You Are?

    Have you ever seen the NBC show by the same name?  It’s such an interesting show – to watch celebrities investigate their past and learn where they came from. It’s incredible to watch them process through the stories of their past.  It’s interesting to watch them tear through learning about…

  • Family Sculpture

    It is an exercise that I assign to my students in order to learn from them.  It’s a great activity, and I have made literally hundreds of students do it.  I remember many of them, and they’re pretty easy to facilitate.  Basically, a student will take students from the class…