The Lost Teacher

A wandering exploration of teaching and learning

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Young Originals: The importance of passion and play, the challenge of purpose

July 26, 2017

Wagner made me realize one of the reasons that I find these students so appealing – they cling to passion and play longer than most students. I have taught third and fifth grades, and most students have figured out how to play the school game by the time they have reached the age of 9. Young Originals, however, maintain their desire to find the humor and joy in the mundane.  … More Young Originals: The importance of passion and play, the challenge of purpose

I’m annoyed and I blame it on Paul Solarz (because he is awesome)!

July 20, 2017

For the last two days, I’ve been reading Paul Solarz’s (that looks weird, I think it should be Solarz’) book Learn Like a Pirate. I am pretty sure he is the best fifth grade teacher ever. This bothers me for two reasons. One is that I am pretty sure I can never reach his skill level. And two, I just left my fifth grade classroom and feel like I need to go back right away to try out all of the things I just learned from his book. … More I’m annoyed and I blame it on Paul Solarz (because he is awesome)!

Unlocking learning

July 15, 2017

The phrase, unlock learning, jumped out of the computer and has been stuck in my head for the last few days. As I’ve had a few days to toss around the phrase and the connecting ideas, I started to unlock my own learning. Two strategies/methods for unlocking learning spoke most clearly to me. … More Unlocking learning