In this week’s episode of the Steve Barkley Ponders Out Loud podcast, Steve is joined by Brianna Gray and Jake Rosch, authors of the book “Talking In Class – Increasing the Quality and Quantity of Student-to-Student Dialogue in the Classroom.” Find out more about structuring student dialog & download the book here: http://www.talkinginclass.com/get-the-book.html Subscribe to […]

Analysis frequently precedes appraisal, evaluation, or problem solving. When analyzing we are separating into parts, groups or elements. Often a generalization or understanding will emerge from an analysis. We think in generalities, but we live in detail. — Alfred North Whitehead When word problems stump students, it is often because they believe they should be […]

In this week’s episode of the Steve Barkley Ponders Out Loud podcast, Steve ponders “Teaching & Learning With Simulations & Live Event.” Listen as Steve talks with Joe Griffith, a teacher at Honey Creek Community School, about a homeless simulation project. Read about the homeless simulation project: http://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/index.ssf/2018/03/middle_school_homelessness_sim.html Get in touch with Joe Griffith: jgriffith@hc.wash.k12.mi.us […]

I am excited to be joining Jim Knight at the Teaching Learning Coaching Conference 2018,  October 9-11, in  Las Vegas. Jim has created an opportunity for instructional coaches to interact with a great list of coaching leaders. Jim  posted a blog titled, Steve Barkley Interview and I posted a podcast of a conversation he and I had. Here […]

In this week’s episode of the Steve Barkley Ponders Out Loud podcast, Steve ponders “Increasing Perseverance by Translating Goals into Behaviors.” Listen as Steve discusses how a Ted Talk and his own experience with weight loss influenced how he thinks about goals and their relationship to behaviors. Subscribe to the Steve Barkley Ponders Out Loud […]

Identifying similarities and differences is a fundamental cognitive process. When faced with a new situation, we naturally look to see how the situation is similar to something we already know and how it is different. I recognize this process as I travel internationally. Landing in an airport with everything labeled in an unfamiliar language, I can identify […]