Top Masters in Education has included Never Work Harder Than Your Students in it’s list of 50 Best Books for New Teachers. “A must read by long time teacher Robyn Jackson, Never Work Harder Than Your Students is a practical and well thought out guide for teachers striving to connect with their students in a practiced [...]
By: Shauna Brown Leung One of the challenges common to all teachers focused on increasing rigor in the classroom is getting students to master the vocabulary of the content. Teachers throughout the country tackle this feat by giving students lists of “key terms” to define for each unit. Some require flash cards, others ask students [...]
Recently, I invited my favorite eight-year-old to help me bake cookies. I set out all the ingredients we would need and we got to work. First we measured the flour. She asked me, “Can I do it?” “No sweetie, you’ll make a mess. Let me measure the flour and then you can put it in [...]
Every year, we spend time at Mindsteps™ conducting student focus groups with the schools we serve on an ongoing basis. We conduct these focus groups to find out if the work we are doing with teachers and administrators is really making a difference where it counts – with the students. Every year, I am surprised [...]
On the seventh day of Christmas, Mindsteps sent to me the seven principles of effective instruction, six things I look for when I visit a classroom, five of the biggest mistakes I made as a new teacher, four differentiation mistakes to avoid, three ways to survive the December crunch, two Webinars, and a free [...]
Mastery is a progressive process. You don’t get good at teaching or at anything else right away. Just try to get a little better every day and over time, you’ll be good. Very good.
In Never Work Harder Than Your Students, (published by ASCD) Robyn R. Jackson makes a radical assertion: Any teacher can become a master teacher with the right kind of practice. This mindset is achieved by rigorously applying seven principles of the master teacher mindset to your teaching until they become your automatic response to students. [...]
