Joe Bower is a committed educator who started his career by teaching by the book, disciplined students when need be and gave penalties to students who handed in late assignments. He makes it clear in his blog and website that's not how he does things anymore. Joe got tired of teaching the way he got taught to teach, and began to explore more "progressive ways of education."
Mr. Bower may have had an epiphany at one time, where he came to realize that it's okay to teach the way you want.
- Rethink discipline!
- Rethink Lesson Plans!
- Rethink Standardization!
"I believe students should experience their success and failure not as reward and punishment but as information." (Joe Bower)
Information on how to do better, know where they are right now and how to get to that A+, give them that information so they can become successful. I enjoy his approach to teaching, and thats why this edublogger caught my eye.
www.joebower.org
An excellent review of Joe Bower! Thanks for the share Tom!
ReplyDeleteI like it when educators reflect upon and share their "failures" with others. I feel it makes them more relatable. We are all going to have our ups and downs in teaching. And as much as we want to say we have all the answers, we don't. We will make mistakes, but what matters is if we recognize those mistakes and then learn from them. Thanks for sharing your find with us. I will definitely check his blog out.
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