Just because he's angry

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Just because he's angry

... doesn't mean he's right.

... or even well-informed.

Something to think about when dealing with a customer, a leader or even a neighbor.

It's easy to assume that vivid emotions spring from the truth. I'm not so sure. They often come from fear and confusion and well-told stories.

Posted by Seth Godin on October 30, 2010 | Permalink

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How Should I Feel?

I love some of the things that are in my school's future, but I have trouble spending too much time feeling a sense of satisfaction because I know in many instances that we are lagging on a trail that has been embarked upon by others years earlier. However, I also know that there are other schools that are light years behind our school in moving forward on some of the same initiatives. 

So then I worry about being guilty of not taking time to celebrate some of our accomplishments. On the other hand, I feel awkward celebrating "the bus leaving on time" as one of my colleagues describes this phenomenon of praising things that we just should have been doing a lot earlier.

Do you know what I mean? How should I feel? 

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Would These 10 Commandments Apply To Teaching As Well?

Just finished reading 10 Commandments of Suck-Free Speaking from Jonathan Fields' Blog.  I am thinking that this would be a pretty good starting point for a list of commandments for suck-free teaching. 

10 Commandments of Suck-Free Speaking

1. Give a damn – If you don’t they’ll know…and you’ll suck.

2. Tell great stories – Craft ones that engage, entertain, educate and inspire.

3. Practice…A Lot – With rare exception, speakers are made, not born.

4. Co-create the experience – Empower your audience to own and guide it.

5. Bullets kill – Use slides only to expand and illuminate, never as a crutch

6. Simplify – You don’t need to prove you’re smarter, they already know you’re not.

7. Be generous – It’s about them, not you.

8. Create a script – Then throw it away, the magic is in the process, not the product

9. Lean into the fear – It means it matters to you, that’s a good thing.

10. Focus and flit - Speak to one person at a time, then another, then another.

Bonus Commandment – Don’t be a butthead. Fly your freak flag, but not for affect and never out of arrogance or anger.

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Interesting Question On Becoming An "Expert Teacher"

There is an interesting question being posed on the Edutopia site in the Walden University Group re: Do Teachers Over Time Become Expert Teachers?

Personally, I worry about the use of the term expert. It could just be narrow thinking on my part, but is expert a term that someone would reach and there would be no further to go? I think it is important to encourage a mindset where we are never quite there.

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