by Jim Knight | Jul 21, 2013 | Instructional Coaching, Learning From Video, Professional Learning |
Given the opportunity to speak at the Learning Forward Summer Conference, I asked myself, what would be the message I would consider most important to share with a large audience of educational leaders? I decided that I should make my case that autonomy and...
by Jim Knight | Nov 16, 2010 | Improving Instruction, Student Learning |
“Dialogue cannot be carried on in a climate of hopelessness. If the dialoguers expect nothing to come of their efforts, their encounters will be empty, sterile, bureaucratic and tedious.” Paulo Freire I learned about the power of hope the first year I taught at...
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 | Nov 10, 2010 | Learning From Video, Student Learning |
If I do not love the world–If I do not love life–If I do not love [people]–I cannot enter into dialogue. Paulo Freire. What does it mean to teach with love? The poet Margaret Atwood has famously said, “The Eskimo has fifty-two names for snow because...
by Jim Knight | Nov 8, 2010 | Improving Instruction, Student Learning |
Faith in [people] is an a priori requirement for dialogue; the ‘dialogical [person]’ believes in other [people] even before [meeting] them face to face. Paulo Freire What does it mean to teach with faith in our students? When I teach with faith, I truly recognize that...
