My goal from last week was to increase the total amount of time I spent practicing compared to the previous week. While I did not increase it by much, I am pleased to be able to say that I did … Read More
It is important to be mindful as teachers that everything we bring into the classroom serves a direct purpose to improve students’ learning or well-being, and we must remember that everything we do in the classroom has an opportunity cost … Read More
As I said I planned to do in my previous post, this week I decided to make a practice log on Google Sheets to keep track of what I’ve done. Having this be public will hopefully also serve as a … Read More
A Google search of my own name yielded far more results than I would have expected, and it showed quite a lot of information about my old life before I changed my career path to teaching. It shows me as … Read More
This week, I spent many hours and expended a significant amount of energy on my Free Inquiry project. Unfortunately, only twenty minutes of that was actually spent playing music – ostensibly the topic of my inquiry. What the bulk of … Read More
Ah, Screencasting. I have viewed so many tutorials for various things that have used this method, but this was my first attempt to ever do it myself, and it was not as smooth-sailing as I had expected it would be. … Read More
The world has been changing and evolving constantly as humanity progresses through time, especially throughout the Industrial Revolution and into our current digital age. How humanity has needed to interact with each other and the world around them has evolved … Read More
Skills are like muscles – both operate on a “use it or lose it” principle. A muscle that is not been used will eventually deteriorate and atrophy, as happens with elderly people and bedridden patients. To maintain a particular muscle’s … Read More