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I have to endure a weekly 'newsletter' that features something called 'Brain Bits.' I am not kidding. The trouble is that the 'bits' are cut and pasted from all over the place and one of the little bits got stuck in my craw. It had to do with seeking to connect your teaching to students' interests - making it relevant.

I KNOW that Willingham addressed this very well in an early chapter. In Chapter 7 he alludes to it again and says he mentioned it in Chapter 1.

I searched for the passage and can't find it. Then I looked again. Sigh.

Just so you know, I thought I lost a discontinued set of rubber post office stamps last week. I tore apart my cupboard and stamp bucket and couldn't find them. In desperation, I asked a parent volunteer to go through my bucket again - and she found them immediately. My mother used to send me to look for stuff and I could never find it and then she would yell at me and the stupid thing would have been right there all the time. ...See More
Parker Kim, you want Chapter 3 p.63-6, right under What Good Teachers Have in Common. Goes along with the "memory is the residue of thought" comments. On 2/05/11, KimK1ca wrote: > I have to endure a weekly 'newsletter' that features > something called 'Brain Bits.' I am not kidding. The > trouble is that the 'bits' are cut and pasted from all ove...See More
Feb 6, 2011


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