There’s a teaching problem that has been puzzling me for three years. I think I’m finally getting to the bottom of how to fix it.  Here’s what’s been bugging me. My students hate lectures. In fact, most of my students despise them. I’m not sure if I will ever know the real reason why and […]

Because of my current career as a teacher and my previous careers connected with technology, curating information and being able to quickly and accurately retrieve information is important to me. Over the span of my 40+ year tech and teaching career, I have assembled and constantly adjust how I deal with information – everything from […]

I am a CTE (Career and Technical Education) teacher. The subject that I teach (Information Technology and Networking) prepares my 11th and 12th grade students for their first job as a computer or network support technician or to continue their education in computer technology. Part of what I would like my students to learn is […]

First off, let me say that early on in my current teaching assignment, I learned one thing really fast. There is an enormous amount of information that I, as a teacher have to absorb. Obviously, there is information related to my subject expertise of computers and networking. But, on top of the subject matter information, […]