por Ersun Warncke | Feb 13, 2024 | Uncategorized
Why resources often trump resolve This is a piece I wrote last spring, but wanted to share as the issues it raises have not gone anywhere. Education demands equitable access to resources, or it will end before it starts. On Tuesday, around half-past-nine in the...
por Ersun Warncke | Feb 6, 2024 | Uncategorized
Discovering the joy of rewritingMany students dread revision. Why do I have to do it again? They ask.I love revising and teaching revision because it is a rare and precious commodity: a genuine second chance.How many of us, if we could, would take the opportunity to...
por Ersun Warncke | Ene 30, 2024 | Uncategorized
Writing to rememberIf you don’t already, subscribe to Strayed’s SubstackThis interview originally appeared on the excellent but now defunct Ideas Tap website. The organization, which was dedicated to supporting young people pursuing creative careers, closed in 2015...
por Ersun Warncke | Ene 23, 2024 | Uncategorized
The power of perspective in writingMiracle or Tragedy?Succumbing to algorithmic prodding (and a morose fascination with flight disasters) I watched Society of the Snow.As a film, it was better than hoped-for. But it was looking for the down-low on what happened (like...
por Ersun Warncke | Ene 17, 2024 | Uncategorized
Teaching students with specific exceptional reading skillsAmong the notable words I learned in 2022 was hyperlexia. Burrowing into articles about autism, the term popped up. Hyper = excessive, lexia = related to words. Defining hyperlexiaIn 1997, Aram described...
por Ersun Warncke | Ene 9, 2024 | Uncategorized
Supporting students to optimize learning As young people return to their studies after the holidays, it seems like the good time to discuss how the quality of their learning can be improved.One common — and notably underdiagnosed in girls — challenge is...
