Sublime

“It is no surprise,” De Boer notes, “that TfT teachers often find that students ultimately absorb the ‘what’ of the unit better because they have a meaningful story for learning.”

Instead, the new culture of learning is about the kind of tension that develops when students

result, cannot be read as totally aberrant or idiosyncratic.

Structure:

found when he joined the online community was that he was no longer simply creating animations or games; he was part of a larger conversation.

who is the self that teaches? How does the quality of my selfhood form—or deform—the way I relate to my students, my subject, my colleagues, my world? How can educational institutions sustain and deepen the selfhood from which good teaching comes?

the boundary crosser, the inventor, and the metaphor maker.

what is style, after all, but the effective use of words to engage the human mind?