“Michelle, why are you still coloring your face with the red marker?” asked Mrs. Johnson. “We are lining up to go to lunch, didn’t you hear the instructions?” Ask any teacher what their number one ...

Over at my blog about English-language learners, Learning the Language, I discuss how many teachers don’t spend much time teaching oral English to ELLs, particularly in the upper grades. My ...

Can the instructional gifts we prize in great teachers be captured in standarized professional knowledge tests? Lately, I have been working on a paper analyzing teacher testing with particular ...

Listening is critical to the oral history process. How does one teach students to listen? This article describes a series of listening exercises the author designed for her students and the reflexive ...

When I arrived at Yale more than 30 years ago to do graduate work in theology, I soon heard other students urging that I take a course with David Kelsey. Even as an undergraduate I had already learned ...

Join Oral History Summer School and the Hudson Area Library on Thursday, April 8, 7-8:30 p.m. for a virtual interactive listening party with conversation celebrating educators as they respond to their ...

Cooking with pre-schoolers. It may sound like a disaster waiting to happen, but experts say it can help tremendously with one important thing: listening. "I think the learning process in their brains, ...