I experienced… the unhealthy shame that exists in our culture of medicine — where I felt alone, isolated, not feeling the healthy kind of shame that you feel, because you can’t talk about it with your colleagues.
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N.Y. Times: Doctors Suffer From Shame Disabled Learning Too
Until we attend to the culture of shame that surrounds learning errors, we will be only nipping at the edges of one of the greatest threats to our children’s education.
MUTISM & MIND-SHAME
Refusing to speak or speaking in a whisper spares the child from the possible humiliation or embarrassment of saying the “wrong” thing.
Re: How Identical Twins Develop Different Personalities
Why are you who you are? Re: “How Identical Twins Develop Different Personalities”
Superintendents: Are you “leading your teacher’s learning” or “training” them?
Buying the ‘right’ program and training teachers to use it is not only insufficient, it misorients a school system’s learning.
Re: Making Sense of Teacher Professional Development
Re: Making Sense of Teacher Professional Development / Misconceptions That Block Learning
Major Update to Children of the Code – Two New Video Chapters
The Children of the Code site has been upgraded to much higher quality videos that can be run on your tablets, smartphones, etc. ++ Two new chapters: “What is Reading?” and “Paradigm Inertia”
When Learning Hurts – Toxic Learning
What and how students learn can have toxic effects on how well they learn thereafter. It’s vitally important that educators understand this.
What does it mean that most of our children are CHRONICALLY IMPROFICIENT in the skills most critically important for success in school?
What does it mean that most of our children are CHRONICALLY IMPROFICIENT in the skill areas most critically important for success in school?
Study: confusion can be beneficial to learning?
Pedagogically-strategically, leading learners into confusion means we can meet them in the confusion – we can arrange to be together in the confusion. For both their learning and ours, feedback, from their experience of confusion, is the best possible source of intelligence from which to tune/improve instructional design.
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