"I don't know you, but I've met people who took your courses and they speak amazingly well."
𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗳𝗲𝗲𝗱𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗼𝗿 𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗴𝗴𝗴𝗴. No "I heard you're nice," no "I heard you speak the language well", no "I heard your classes are cool." None of it means anything unless it's also this. #effectiveness or bust

#education #curriculum #teaching #language #multilingual

“Whatever you want from a poem, on first read, I found myself just thinking about that line, this idea of recklessness in the context of one's own life. And I wasn't even really thinking about climate change when I first read the poem. I was just thinking about this question of how we spend our time and the way that minutes build up into a life and how easy it is to pass the time without thinking deeply about what it is that one wants from one's life.”

From Ideas: When a poem changes your life, Mar 23, 2026
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ideas/id151485663?i=1000756848482&r=1118
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#teaching #timemanagement #gtd #goals #wellness

“I don't understand why you're disagreeing with me.
One possibility is that you know something I don't know. You have a different set of facts or you have a different set of priorities, or you have a different perspective. So I'm going to try to understand what it is I don't know about the problem.
Because if there's something that I don't know that I could learn from you, that's incredibly valuable and I want to garner that value. So then you walk in with saying, look, I noticed that you were proposing doing it this other way. That's not how I've ever thought about it.”

From The Decision Corner: How to argue with Julia Minson, Oct 11, 2022
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-decision-corner/id1525271124?i=1000582306694&r=220
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#teams #facilitation #teaching #gop #seeing #community

Save time, survive the day.

⏱️😐

https://eduhacking.com/the-5-minute-lesson-plan-hack-teach-smarter-not-harder/

#Teaching #Education #TeacherLife

Hello Fediverse. I've got a TEFL English teaching course lying around and I think it would be useful to someone else instead.

I'm giving it away for a discounted price of $200 (usually costs $549). It expires right before June.

If you, or anyone else might find this helpful, feel free to reach out to me here in the comments!

#TEFL #English #teachers #teaching #education #language

🧠🇸🇪 Swedish #education officials are scaling back digital device usage in schools after reports indicated a decline in basic #literacy skills.

The new strategy prioritizes printed #books and handwriting to support cognitive focus and deep #reading. #Research suggests that physical materials enhance memory retention and reading comprehension compared to digital screens.

👉 https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/04/sweden-goes-back-to-basics-swapping-screens-for-books-in-the-classroom/

#sweden #neuroscience #technology #tech #learning #teaching #psychology