Good teaching cannot be reduced to technique; good teaching comes from the identity and integrity of the teacher.
Whoever our students may be, whatever the subject we teach, ultimately we teach who we are.
What a child can do today with assistance, she will be able to do by herself tomorrow.
In a growth mindset, challenges are exciting rather than threatening. So rather than thinking, oh, I’m going to reveal my weaknesses, you say, wow, here’s a chance to grow.
What did you learn today? What mistake did you make that taught you something? What did you try hard at today?
Test scores and measures of achievement tell you where a student is, but they don’t tell you where a student could end up.
Those who keep learning, will keep rising in life.
Education is an atmosphere, a discipline, a life.
The number one problem in the classroom is not discipline; it is the lack of procedures and routines.
The single greatest effect on student achievement is not race, it is not poverty – it is the effectiveness of the teacher.
Learning how to learn is life’s most important skill.
Learning is the process whereby knowledge is created through the transformation of experience.
What any person in the world can learn, almost all persons can learn if provided with appropriate prior and current conditions of learning.
Education is everything – education is your power, education is your way in life for whatever you want to do.
If the curriculum we use to teach our children does not connect in positive ways to the culture young people bring to school, it is doomed to failure.
Differentiation is simply a teacher attending to the learning needs of a particular student or small groups of students, rather than teaching a class as though all individuals in it were basically alike.
Differentiation is classroom practice that looks eyeball to eyeball with the reality that kids differ, and the most effective teachers do whatever it takes to hook the whole range of kids on learning.
In differentiated classrooms, teachers begin where students are, not the front of a curriculum guide.
Assessment is today’s means of modifying tomorrow’s instruction.
The most important single factor influencing learning is what the learner already knows. Ascertain this and teach him accordingly.