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.
Carol Ann TomlinsonWe can always gain more depth and breadth in our work [as educators]. There are always new discoveries to be made.
Carol Ann TomlinsonWe're teaching a generation of students who've been schooled to produce quick, right answers on demand. They are not comfortable with ambiguity. The implications of that in the long term are discomforting.
Carol Ann TomlinsonI think [testing] has had a profoundly problematic impact on student learning. It must seem to students that their worth as individuals is equivalent to their test score. The stress the high stakes culture has on teachers is also highly negative and must surely impact students in a negative way. It also de-professionalizes teachers because it encourages them to be script readers, followers of rigid schedules, and to disregard the needs of the people they teach in favor of the scripts and schedules.
Carol Ann TomlinsonInterest refers to studentโs affinity, curiosity, or passion for a particular topic or skill.
Carol Ann TomlinsonA teacher in a differentiated classroom does not classify herself as someone who โalready differentiates instruction.โ Rather that teacher is fully aware that every hour of teaching, every day in the classroom can reveal one more way to make the classroom a better match for its learners.
Carol Ann Tomlinson