Jason J Anger

@edudissenter Not great, considering how little the man had to say about curriculum.

@JasonJAnger Yeah, I think he’s the only author my last district’s director of curriculum had ever read.

The Prussian model of education seems despised by all camps here on Edutwitter, but its adoption by Japan in the late 1800's is one reason Japan became such a military and economic powerhouse in the early 20th C.

@b_fink I don’t know how someone who’s been through professional development can claim anything else as their worst nightmare.

My worst nightmare: trapped on a slowly flooding submarine with Michael Myers and Wendy Torrance from The Shining.

@MrDanielBuck If you think teacher prep is rough, you should look into administrator prep.

Flipping through teacher prep curricula from UW-Madison A course on politics and education Their class dedicated to school choice has three assigned readings EVERY. SINGLE. ONE. is critical of school choice

@MrZachG And if a student is bored, increase rigor.

If a child is extremely frustrated, adjust instruction. 1. Increase support: show how to do it or do part of it yourself. 2. Lower task demands: break it into smaller parts. You don’t excuse them from the task, get mad them, or hope repeated failure will make them smarter.

@rpondiscio @Beanie0597 I loved his book, The Knowledge Gap, even if it wasn’t written by him.

@Beanie0597 You’re a good mind reader. I can’t finish two sentences without citing Hirsch. Others who are no less indebted to him, not so much. It’s infuriating.

Know how some people start their talks with “stolen land” declarations? A lot of edu-pundits should make stolen ideas declarations.

@MrDanielBuck How about the National Council of Teachers of English encouraging teachers to move away from teaching books?

It’s always fun to explain popular ideas in education to people outside of education and watch their reaction “It might kill the joy of learning to teach kids letter sounds” “Practice is bad” “Don’t memorize any knowledge” “Let kids pick their books” “Discipline is racist”

@MrZachG The true deficit thinking is passing them because you’ve determined they’re incapable of learning, even if they put in the extra work.

Kids need to “catch up”, because they are “behind” and “below grade level” is not “deficit thinking.” It is malpractice to ignore, hide, and excuse away this information. Focusing on the labels is a distraction by people unwilling to act.

@NielsHoven There are several things in education that, if asked at random, the average person would be closer to sound practice than a teacher. Phonics is a great example of this, but we could add to the list memorization, failing bad students, and being consistent in discipline, etc.

The reason that it’s so hard to explain “phonics” is that literally no normal person can imagine reading any other way But no, teachers have been telling kids to guess at words instead of sounding them out for the past 30 years