Teaching is a very habit-bound endeavor. We're unsettled by the unfamiliar. We're creatures of habit too.

A gifted teacher has an unfailing eye for magical classrooms & loses sleep over anything less than the highest quality.

The best educators I have met never stop asking questions. Some of them have taught for forty years and continue to be energized by new possibilities.

Differentiation is simply a teacher attending to the learning needs of a particular student or small groups of students, rather than teaching a class as though all individuals in it were basically alike.

On some level students are essentially the same. They are people with fears and dreams. They laugh and cry over many of the same things. They share an essential humanity as young people always have.hey differ in some significant ways now, too, I believe. They are forced to grapple with complex issues at a much younger age.

We need to understand where are students are at any point during a unit - in other words, what each student actually knows, understands, and can do at a given time based on the content goals we've established.

Interest refers to student’s affinity, curiosity, or passion for a particular topic or skill.