Even if you’re new to this education caper, you can probably hark back to your own days as a student and recall that favourite teacher of yours at the front of the classroom.
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Adam Voigt’s flashback to being principal
Whether you’re a principal or a classroom teacher, it’s a timely reminder that our focus needs to be on how effective we are, not how much we can do.
Read More »Adam Voigt: Let’s play chess, not poker
It wasn’t uncommon for my staff to attempt to fit another day's work during the evening. And I was guilty of it as well.
Read More »Adam Voigt: How we signal negative feelings in students
We do our students an awful disservice when our responses to wrong doing or even to negative feelings being experienced by accident don’t result in appropriate actions...
Read More »Adam Voigt: Can kids on the Autism spectrum “do” empathy?
Empathy is both a cognitive and intuitive capability.
Read More »Adam Voigt on teacher practice: explicit versus implicit
If your students are likely to provide answers like these, then my best guess is that you, like me for several years of my career, are operating an implicit practice framework...
Read More »Say the right things: Using effective classroom communication
"I was under pressure, I was emotional," says Adam Voigt. "And in an emotional state, locating the right words from within our long-term memory is a task of significant difficulty."
Read More »Principals, principles and decisions.
Encouraging students to turn their homework into paper mache swords for an end-of-year comp: good idea or problematic? Adam Voigt explains...
Read More »Language in, language out: a basic model for school culture
I was recently working with some School Leaders and I devised a basic model on the run with them about School Culture.
Read More »Visibly sucking: real talk, real schools
was embarrassed. I was ashamed and I felt a little humiliated as the lesson finally drew to an awkward close at the sound of that blessed bell.
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