Teacher Tom
Teaching and learning from preschoolers
Tuesday, June 06, 2023
Do We Want Children To Fall In Love With Reading? If So, We're Failing
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In 1974, I was a 12-year-old living with my family in the suburbs of Athens, Greece. My father was working on a project for the Greek gov...
Monday, June 05, 2023
Reading Faulkner With Five-Year-Olds
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Our school was collecting new and gently used books to donate for a fundraiser. Someone brought in a couple of bags of books the day afte...
Friday, June 02, 2023
The General Theory Of The Second Best
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It is well known that the attainment of a Paretian optimum requires the simultaneous fulfillment of all the optimum condit...
Thursday, June 01, 2023
Summer Break: To Know What It Means To Have The Luxury Of Choosing
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My wife Jennifer and I spent a chunk of the the 90's living and working in Germany. We were there because Jennifer was a...
Wednesday, May 31, 2023
"You Never Change"
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"Teacher Tom, you always wear the same shirt." It wasn't entirely true, but I understood why a kid might say t...
Tuesday, May 30, 2023
That Is Flat-Out Cruel
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Not long ago, I was asked to observe a two-year-old who was, according to his teachers, disruptive in class. When we were ou...
Monday, May 29, 2023
We Asked One Another, "What Do You Do?"
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I spent recent evening at a Memorial Day weekend barbeque in the company of several people I had never met before. We asked ...
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