A Teacher’s Thoughts

Whenever I pull out my science frameworks, I am always amazed at the amount of content and the apparent unrelatedness of it all. I have worked with standards in three states and it seems to be the same each time. Training and best practice say to dig deeper but the standards, so broad in coverage, [...]

After many discussions and readings about content versus skills in eduction I remembered an experience I had in early in graduate school. I was in the biology library one evening trying to figure out what to do a thesis on. I had been at it for several weeks at that point, though I wasn’t frustrated. [...]