Q and A With John Taylor Gatto
I’ve written several blog-posts inspired by Gatto’s work. You can read one of them here. Recently I asked John Taylor Gatto a question on...
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Wild Motherhood
Who You Are is What You’ll Teach. 106
A couple of weeks ago I walked into a teacher’s lounge where a teacher in his thirties was giving advice to one of the teaching...
Transformational Teaching Tools: Learning Through Gaming. 105
“After school, kids are devouring new information, concepts, and skills every day, and, like it or not, they’re doing it controller in...
Education with Passion for a Digital Generation. 104
Standardized tests and archaic curricular that must be rushed through in a matter of months, are filling up the classrooms. At the same...
Unschooling The School System. 103
“A child does not have to be motivated to learn; in fact, learning cannot be stopped. A child will focus on the world around him and long...
A Teacher’s Journey To Life, A Personal Review. 100
So for this ‘anniversary’ I will share a reflection on what I have learned during the past 15 years working in the field of education....
Why Smaller Classes are Essential for The Success and Well-Being of Your Child. 94
I will begin by sharing recent experiences I had within teaching here in Sweden to exemplify how grave this problem is and how it can be...
Emancipated Learning and the Self-Empowered Student. 93
Since I started working as a teacher, I noticed how demotivated the older students were and how the ‘spark of life’ that is so prominent...
How Much Reality Can a Child Handle? 87
I am continuing here from a series of blog-posts that I wrote about introducing children to real-life issues. I Know the World. Do You?...
A Political Awakening of the Young Generation or a Return to 1950’s Survival Strategies? DAY 6
On February 12. 2014 a British mother Rachel Ragg published an article about the subject in the Daily Mail. Ragg talks about how she is...
What I have Learned About Education from Teaching: DAY 67
In this post I am going to review the last year I have worked as a teacher in terms of what I have learned from teaching. Because as I...
What You Should Ask Yourself About Why You Go to Work Every Day: DAY 66
Today I am taking inventory and within that re-committing myself to the work that I am doing as a teacher – with a new starting-point and...
What Children Have Taught Me about Teaching: DAY 65
In this blog post I am continuing with the series about communicating with children based on my experiences as a teacher. Here are the...
What We Can Learn From How Children See The World: DAY 64
At the moment I am busy doing a newspaper project with all of my studentsfrom the 1. To the 9. Grade (ages 6 – 16). Within this project,...
How do You Speak With Children? DAY 63
For the purpose of this blog-post I found an article titled “Scientific Studies Explain the Best Ways to Talk to Children” about how to...
Why Adults Talk Down To Children: DAY 62
Something that I’ve noticed within my work with children is how I in certain situations – especially with younger children – will change...
Why Children Act Differently Around Adults: DAY 61
Something that I’ve noticed in my work as a teacher is how children change their behavior as soon as an adult steps into the room. This...
Can Empty Words Come to Life? DAY 60
“ Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.” ― Aldous Huxley, ...
Who is Responsible for My Child’s Education? DAY 59
Who has the responsibility for our children’s failures and successes when it comes to education? Is it the school-system? The government?...
Why we as Parents Must take Active Part in our Children’s Education: DAY 58
In the last blog-post I wrote about a teaching situation with three boys. In the blog-post I wrote about who these three boys were very...
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