25 Things Teachers Should Know in 2025 - Much Ado About Teaching 1 – Overload – The work of teaching will never end, so you must choose when and where to end it. There’s simply not time to do everything required of the job; make peace with the fact that some things...

@susangbarber.bsky.social and I have lasted as long as we have in the classroom because we know what is important to us.
Here are 25 things we value in 2025.

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Helping Young Students Build Confidence in Writing Through Revision Upper elementary teachers can guide their students to look forward to revising their writing with this positive, reflective approach.

Helping Young Students Build Confidence in Writing Through Revision
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Q5. This article provided negative generalizations that overlooked the work that great teachers are doing each day. Change the narrative and provide something specific that gives you hope.
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LAst question coming in 5 minutes. Y'all have been great and I miss this dearly. #aplitchat

A4. Projects can create self directed learning environments in which students fulfill their natural curiosity that can be squelched by direct instruction.
If students are engaged during class (45-60 minutes), how much more of their time should we expect to own outside of school?
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Q4. Offer a counterargument to this statement:

"So it (direct instruction) has been replaced by corn-syrup instruction: more projects, less homework, less memorization. "

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As an admin said in my school, everyone is on board for more rigor (parents, teachers, admin, students), until grades come out. #aplitchat

A3. Direct instruction is valuable when information needs to be front loaded in order to scaffold to higher-level thinking. This happened recently when I taught Pride and Prejudice. With so many characters, families, and estates, students needed my help to sort it all out. #aplitchat

Q3. "Direct instruction — by far the most effective form of teaching, from Aristotle to the present — is neither trendy for wannabe “reformers” nor easy for classroom teachers."

Is there any truth to this?

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A2. It was click bait, designed to elicit emotions by casting a broad net and it almost caught me until I realized that it was short on solutions as well as empathy.
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Q2. What is your biggest criticism with this article?
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A1. My first response to the article was more emotional than cognitive. I found myself feeling some of its sentiments. While this year has been different (because of a cell phone ban) the past two years have been somewhat vegetative. #aplitchat

Q1. Does an article like this do any good?
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WU: I am listening to Sebastian Junger's Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging as I rake leaves. It is moving me to belong more to our shared humanity. #aplitchat

Warm Up (WU): Did you read anything noteworthy over Thanksgiving?
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I am Brian Sztabnik, from NY. I teach three sections of #aplit and I host #aplitchat on the first Sunday of each month.

Tonight we are discussing this article from the @nypost.com.web.brid.gy nypost.com/2024/11/29/o... #aplitchat

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As a teacher for 26 years, I’ve seen how we dumbed down education — and how kids suffer Teachers have been faced with two choices: educating students with challenging material and frequent grading or engaging them with fun projects and participation grades.

I am hosting the first #aplitchat tonight at 8pm ET. We will discuss this article from the @nypost.com.web.brid.gy nypost.com/2024/11/29/o...