Mike Sullivan🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱
@mikesully97
Teacher by day, lawyer/political junky by night #CenterLeft #ObamaBidenDem #KnowledgeRich #CogSci @[email protected]
The multiple strategy approach is one of the biggest problems in elementary math education right now in my opinion. We need to start challenging this more. It’s confusing & time consuming & takes time away from practicing standard methods.
High-order thinking depends on a strong foundation of knowledge. Without this foundation, there’s nothing to critically think about. That is why teaching “21st century skills” and “critical thinking” in isolation does not work. Let me explain with an analogy ⬇️
Kudos to @justinskycak - I started @_MathAcademy_ a week ago and now I'm hooked. If you're looking to understand math better, expand your knowledge base or even just brush up on some rusty skills, I can't recommend it enough!
✳️without knowledge there is no critical thinking✳️ Don’t fall for the fantasy that our learners no longer need content knowledge. They will have nothing to think critically about.
Education that prioritises "21st-century skills" over content knowledge is like teaching someone to fish by removing all the fish from the lake. You can't think critically about nothing, collaborate meaningfully around ignorance, or create innovatively from an empty vessel.
The encroaching adoption of AI in education presents some interesting questions to us. Why do we put children through school? If you think it’s ’to jump through hoops and get certificates’ then you’ll believe it should be used as much as possible. If you believe ‘it’s to learn…
Expertise isn't about having more working memory, it's about needing less of it. Experts automate many components in long-term memory and can recognise meaningful patterns instantly, bypassing the need to process individual elements. ⬇️ 🧵
I’m fine with inspiration at edu conferences, but inspiration only goes so far in a profession that is full of hardworking people that only got into this to make a difference, but have been withheld the knowledge of how to design instruction based on the science of learning.
Here’s my resting heart rate data from the month of June. See if you can guess which day was the last day of school…
If 90% of the behavior issues come from 10% of the classes. Instead of making all teachers/kids spend precious time on an SEL program, how about making sure those teachers have the support they need so every classroom is well-run. Everybody knows "room 15" is wild. Address it
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This happens at all levels of education and it is a problem.
"Don’t sell out kids for acceptance. Fear of being disliked stops many from questioning school policies/practices or working across divides. Careerism & cowardice as priorities hurt kids. Be the adult kids need—lion or dove, just not a herd-follower using approval as a pacifier.
Very much this in education. People who advocate -no exclusions -open plan classrooms -default discovery learning -default project based learning -therapeutic behaviour management etc …will never have to suffer the consequences of those strategies. Only other people, and…
To quote Thomas Sowell: "It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong."
Working to get kids' reading must run deeper than the partisan struggle. I've been critiqued for talking with Blacks, Whites, Multilingual, Union, Moms4Liberty, NAACP, Blue/Red Governors, Progressive, Conservative, Big $, No $. It's called being an adult and having priorities.
I have been writing about problems with the multiple strategy approach for teaching math for > 10 years now. This is from a piece I wrote for the Globe & Mail 11 years ago. The headline writer titled it "Let 3 sticks represent 30 & other Neaderthal math methods" @mikesully97…
"Chromebooks are the new Baby Einstein – an untested educational panacea with laughably dubious evidence of any positive outcomes." Putting computers on students desks was a terrible mistake. By John Allen Wooden johnallenwooden.substack.com/p/ok-google-ma…
If you’re a history buff on any level, I can’t recommend Apple TV’s Manhunt enough. I thought I basically knew everything there was to know about the conspiracy to kill Lincoln, but not even close.
A conspiracy thriller about one of the best known but least understood crimes in history: the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. This is the astonishing story of the high-stakes hunt for John Wilkes Booth. Manhunt, a limited series, premieres March 15.