A fascinating tidbit of research from Cathy N. Davidson’s recent column in The Chronicle: Research indicates that, at every age level, people take their writing more seriously when it will be evaluated by peers than when it is to be judged by teachers. Online blogs directed at peers exhibit fewer typographical and factual errors, less plagiarism,… Read more »
Posts Tagged: education
Smart Twenty-Somethings (and Matt Damon) Explain Federal Education Policy in Electoral Politics in 8 Minutes
Pro tip: whenever you get overwhelmed by the over-achieving TFAers surrounding you who were born far later in the 1980s than you were, just remember that Ezra Klein, Washington Post blogger/reporter, is only 27, and he moonlights as an MSNBC anchor filling in for Rachel Maddow and Martin Bashir. This video is a very smart… Read more »
Classroom Vision: Language is a Toolkit of Power
So one of the pieces of TFA pre-school work that I find really exciting is the “vision” we’re expected to lay out for the year. This is your classroom manifesto, your big call-to-arms for what you want your students to achieve, accomplish, think, or feel about learning. This is your inaugural address, except the only… Read more »
Read, Write, Rock Gets Preliminary Green Light (That Means iPads in Mr. Pratt’s Class!)
I met with my principals today and got spectacular news. They’re going to let me use some of the Gholson cache of iPads for implementing the Read Write Rock project for daily instruction. I owe a lot of folks thanks for their confidence and encouragement, which kept me asking after the resources. But the excitement… Read more »
Hi, I'm Andrew Plemmons Pratt. I am the Program Manager for New Classrooms in Washington, DC. (Though opinions expressed on this site are entirely my own.) I taught 7th-grade English in Prince George’s County, Maryland as a member of the 2010 Teach For America corps. I write about literacy & edtech here—along with stuff like industrial archeology and bread baking.