Comments on: No Idea http://www.toddseal.com/rodin/2008/09/no-idea/ Challenge The Status Quo Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:48:43 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Because we have them. « Rhinosplode http://www.toddseal.com/rodin/2008/09/no-idea/comment-page-1/#comment-37254 Because we have them. « Rhinosplode Tue, 18 Aug 2009 21:09:49 +0000 http://www.toddseal.com/rodin/?p=471#comment-37254 [...] 18, 2009 in Matters Educational Todd Seal wrote this last year, and I’m just getting around to reading it now: The good thing is that I do know a [...] [...] 18, 2009 in Matters Educational Todd Seal wrote this last year, and I’m just getting around to reading it now: The good thing is that I do know a [...]

]]> By: Tom Krawczewicz http://www.toddseal.com/rodin/2008/09/no-idea/comment-page-1/#comment-26541 Tom Krawczewicz Tue, 03 Feb 2009 05:30:48 +0000 http://www.toddseal.com/rodin/?p=471#comment-26541 Sorry that this reply comes many months removed from the initial post. I think all teachers have this thought and when it comes too early in a career and they can't answer it, they move on. For those of us who do feel this way it's a reminder that we are still reinventing ourselves in the classroom and are quite healthy, thank you. I have never been sky diving but I bet it is similar to that moment when you first jump. Sometimes when I have no idea I ask the students what they think I want them to learn at this point or from this material. Their answers serve as a reflection of what and how I have been teaching recently. They can be brutally honest and that helps in giving me an idea, at least, of what I need to be doing. Sorry that this reply comes many months removed from the initial post. I think all teachers have this thought and when it comes too early in a career and they can’t answer it, they move on. For those of us who do feel this way it’s a reminder that we are still reinventing ourselves in the classroom and are quite healthy, thank you. I have never been sky diving but I bet it is similar to that moment when you first jump.

Sometimes when I have no idea I ask the students what they think I want them to learn at this point or from this material. Their answers serve as a reflection of what and how I have been teaching recently. They can be brutally honest and that helps in giving me an idea, at least, of what I need to be doing.

]]> By: Teaching, learning and sharing the load « Rhondda’s Reflections - wandering around the Web http://www.toddseal.com/rodin/2008/09/no-idea/comment-page-1/#comment-25469 Teaching, learning and sharing the load « Rhondda’s Reflections - wandering around the Web Thu, 25 Sep 2008 05:39:54 +0000 http://www.toddseal.com/rodin/?p=471#comment-25469 [...] Luca’s post entitled No idea: a post to read. I then read about a post by a young teacher, Todd Seal, about how  he is feeling the classroom. Most of the comments also reflected that same feeling I [...] [...] Luca’s post entitled No idea: a post to read. I then read about a post by a young teacher, Todd Seal, about how  he is feeling the classroom. Most of the comments also reflected that same feeling I [...]

]]> By: Elona Hartjes http://www.toddseal.com/rodin/2008/09/no-idea/comment-page-1/#comment-25464 Elona Hartjes Wed, 24 Sep 2008 11:16:20 +0000 http://www.toddseal.com/rodin/?p=471#comment-25464 Todd, That's what's so great about being a teacher. You can be creative and do not have to press the "play" button. Imagine if you were handed a binder and told this is what you have to do for the next 25 years. Todd,
That’s what’s so great about being a teacher. You can be creative and do not have to press the “play” button. Imagine if you were handed a binder and told this is what you have to do for the next 25 years.

]]> By: Tom http://www.toddseal.com/rodin/2008/09/no-idea/comment-page-1/#comment-25457 Tom Tue, 23 Sep 2008 13:02:11 +0000 http://www.toddseal.com/rodin/?p=471#comment-25457 Todd, I think you might like <a href="http://helix.richmond.edu/ramgen/pete/ayers_and_hoyle.rm" rel="nofollow">this interview.</a> It's realmedia which sucks but it's two pretty interesting college professors echoing some of your thoughts - around the 15 minute mark but there's some interesting conversation around critical thinking and how it works in the history classroom. Tom Todd,

I think you might like this interview. It’s realmedia which sucks but it’s two pretty interesting college professors echoing some of your thoughts – around the 15 minute mark but there’s some interesting conversation around critical thinking and how it works in the history classroom.

Tom

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