For the longest time, you just sound like a broken record, but you have to be consistent when teaching kids.
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To the teacher weighed down with paperwork, I say: you've been messed around too often. You came into teaching to spend your time teaching children not filling in forms.
In almost every area of human endeavor, the practice improves over time. That hasn't been the case for teaching.
I think the way kids learn most is not by what you say, but by what you do.
The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed.
You've got to make it a good example for those kids regardless of how much you mess up.
A storytelling device teaches. I hate to say it that way, because kids tune out. I don't teach on purpose, but I'm glad that it happens sometimes.
I think that the only way to teach is by example, as children will more easily follow what they see you do than what you tell them to do.
It was the case for a number of years that I was doing a book a year, but that was back when I was part-time teaching - and since 1991, I've been a parent, so that cuts into the time!
'What can your kids teach you?' Well, I believe something different about kids. We don't own them, they have their own knowledge. From the start you have to make the choice to listen.
The challenge as a parent is letting your kids fail in the right ways because that's where we do most of our learning.