The Student is the Class

Time is a variable
Science is a verb Math is a language
Suspend judgment Everyone is part of the transformation
Abraham S. Fischler, Ed.D., Building More Responsive Schools: Quotations and Commentaries for Teachers, Students, Parents and Principals. Get the ebook at Transform-Education.com More posters are available at TransformTeaching.org, including the Turkish version by Nil Gksel. This poster can be translated into other languages. For info: TheEbookman@gmail.com

Barak Rosenshine's

17 Principles of Instruction

Begin a lesson with a short review of previous learning. Present new material in small steps with student practice after each step. Limit the amount of material students receive at one time. Give clear and detailed instructions and explanations. Ask a large number of questions and check for understanding. Provide a high level of active practice for all students. Guide students as they begin to practice. Think aloud and model steps. Provide models of worked-out problems. Ask students to explain what they had learned. Check the responses of all students. Provide systematic feedback and corrections. Use more time to provide explanations. Provide many examples. Re-teach material when necessary. Prepare students for independent practice. Monitor students when they begin independent practice.
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0019/001906/190652e.pdf by Barak Rosenshine, distributed by UNESCO

The teacher of the future is a GUIDE on the SIDE, not a sage on the stage.
Education is NOT the filling of a pail, but rather the LIGHTING of a FIRE. Yeats.
Most students might forget what you taught them, but they will always remember how you treated them.
I never let school get in the way of my education. Mark Twain

Drive out fear.

W. Edwards Deming

Keep "Talking Time" to a minimum.

Schools teach children to obey. But we need creative answers to the challenges of our times. Many of the people who've had the greatest influence on our times were failures in school. J. Kaamp

The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say, The children are now working as if I did not exist.
Maria Montessori Suggest more quotations: TheBookman@gmail.com Transform-Education.com TransformTeaching.org

Lets create people who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done. Jean Piaget
Innovative schools offer small classes, individualized instruction, and flexible curricula which can accommodate the child. The same teacher stays with the same group of children for as many as eight grades. The teacher has to grow and learn with the children. David Elkind

Many teachers believe that they need to control how they teach and how they test. Other teachers negotiate with their students what they will learn, when they will learn it and how we will check that they have learned it. Dennis Yuzenas WhatDoYaKnow.com
Until we find the childs passion, its just school. When the child finds his passion, we teach to that passion. We can find internships for high school students. Kids say, I love this internship! Dennis Littky The Big Picture: Education is Everybody's Business, BigPicture.org,
MetCenter.org

Unfortunately, to most people, teaching is the giving of knowledge. What are you going to tell the students? What is your expertise? But teaching is really about bringing out what's already inside people. Dennis Littky Metcenter.org

Trust. Truth. No Put-downs. Active Listening. Personal Best.

New City School, St. Louis, Mo. Suggest more quotations: TheBookman@gmail.com Transform-Education.com TransformTeaching.org