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This High School Student Wasn’t Happy
about an assigned project (language alert): Basically, this thread is about stupid projects you’ve been assigned. I’ll start by telling one i’ve been given today. Today, my stupid, mentally unstable...
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Comments Inspired by the Cartoon Below
This: My oldest child had group projects in which the entire period was spent arguing whether the members’ names should go on the top of the page, in the space labeled, “name.“ This: Please, triple it...
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Flip Cameras in English (UK)
From the invaluable Scenes from the Battleground blog, a critique of teaching videos held out in the UK as “best practices”: This one has to be seen to be believed (at least if you are not used to what...
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“Africa Tissue Box Project”
From a sixth grade classroom in Katy, Texas (a nice suburb of Houston):
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Silly History Lessons from Britain
A great post here: Here is list of the top ten inane history lessons I have encountered in two years as a history teacher. I may add, these were all pitched at pupils between the ages of 11 and 16:...
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Another Great Mike Schmoker Column
From Education Week: Accompanied by local educators, I visit dozens of schools every year all around the United States. I assure you that the lessons we witness in the great majority of classrooms...
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Great remarks from British education secretary Michael Gove
From here: The Education secretary said he wanted teachers to stop using innovative approaches for teaching which ‘dumbed down’ education. Examples included “making Plasticine models to represent...
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Year-End Posts from “Out in Left Field”
This is a favorite education blog, and its year-end roundup featured some previous posts and comments on annoying school projects. E.g.: This: In a comment on my recent post on creativity, Auntie Anne...
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