Teaching

Before the tweet below, I didn't know what a fronted adverbial was.

This blog was written by Paul Corsi as a project for PADM 5449 at Cornell University.

There are a lot of techniques for learning something new and the learning sciences give us insight into what works: scaffolding, repetition, practice, metacognition, experiential learning and reflection, social cognition, embodied cognition, MAC, etc.

This post was adapted from Thinking At Every Desk. While knowledge and thinking skills have always been important, globalization makes them more critical than ever before.

There are moments in life when we instinctively know that our life is changing and that a corollary transformation of ourselves is underway. I am sure that every parent remembers with great clarity the moment that the totality of becoming a parent hit them. Never is there such a crystallization of absolute joy and heart stopping fear. The enormity of the responsibility of parenthood weighs on us before a child arrives in our home. Yet, we embrace the joy, face that fear, and take the responsibility head on to do what our instincts tell us to do as biological beings raising our young.