This is a reminder that our next Teaching Breakfast get together is tomorrow (Thursday) at 8 am outside Starbucks. The article linked to below is an example of how collectivist cultures have different expectations about “normal” school behavior for students.
This is worthy of a larger discussion which I hope we can have at tomorrows get together.
In Japanese classrooms, teachers consciously design tasks that are slightly beyond the capabilities of the students they teach, so the students can actually experie...