by Jim Knight | Jan 17, 2013 | Improving Instruction, Teaching Strategies |
Jobs launched an innovation in the retail space precisely because he had a bigger vision than his competitors. His customers would enter an Apple store to shop for products and leave “feeling” inspired. –Carmine Gallo One of Steve Jobs’ innovation secrets,...
by Jim Knight | Dec 4, 2012 | Improving Instruction, Teaching Strategies |
I’m thrilled to share with you that my new book, High-Impact Instruction: A Framework for Great Teaching, has been released by Corwin this week. Many of the ideas in my book were first fleshed out in this column. If you’re interested, you can view an...
by Jim Knight | Nov 7, 2012 | School Reform, Teaching Strategies |
I wrote this column a few years back on another site–but it seems especially relevant today. Let’s seek out what we hold in common: The act of finding common ground, I’ve decided, is a bit like trying to create a venn diagram. I’m one circle....
by Jim Knight | Apr 19, 2011 | Teaching Strategies |
As I was going through security at the Kansas City airport a while back, a TSA official asked me to wait so he could check my suitcase by hand. This was the third time in three trips through security that I had been stopped, so I was getting a bit ticked off (and...
by Jim Knight | Nov 15, 2010 | Improving Instruction, Student Learning, Teaching Strategies |
“Only dialogue … is … capable of generating critical thinking.” Paulo Freire Of course we want out students to think. Freire’s comment, though, is a powerful caution because he suggests that our students won’t think unless we, ourselves, approach them with openness...
by Jim Knight | Oct 28, 2010 | Improving Instruction, Teaching Strategies |
Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi is one of my heroes. His book Flow is one of the ten non-fiction books that has most influenced my life (and it occurs to me that I only say that about this book). The book taught me that the question “What am I passionate about?” is much...
