Cameron’s first essay about what students teach teachers is now up. Click here to read the full article on Teach Magazine.

Here’s an excerpt:

“The ‘Teaching the Teacher’ series is dedicated to highlighting a hidden benefit of teaching. It’s a benefit rarely discussed seriously and rarely, if ever, studied as the sub-field it deserves to be. It has nothing to do with pensions or with summers off or even with changing the lives of others. The “Teaching the Teacher” series is about how your students educate you.”

Cameron’s latest essay about what students teach teachers is now up. Click here to read the full article on Teach Magazine.

Here’s an excerpt:

“Art evolves, science advances, history is made. The relentless energy of a global economy churns, consumes, expands. Globally integrated political discourse can cause situations on other continents to have profound effects directly in your community. As wars ensue, fashion styles recycle the 70’s and enter them into 2011. Political uprisings around the world are updated in real-time on Twitter while the standard newspaper you’ve read each morning for twenty years shrinks, and in some cases disappears altogether.”

Cameron’s latest essay about what students teach teachers is now up. Click here to read the full article on Teach Magazine.

Here’s an excerpt:

“We are going to fail. Our lesson plans won’t connect with students. Our students won’t grasp our sharing of concepts in the way we learned them. There will even be times when we give the wrong advice or none at all when most needed. Gatorade commercials remind us how even Michael Jordan missed game-winning shots.

“Our world is one where, sometimes, we are in the classroom so much (even when we’re thinking about it at home) that the last thing we want to do is talk about our teaching failures. Through our students, however, we can be reminded of the struggle to understand that failure will always be part of how we better ourselves. Students can be our Gatorade commercial.”

Cameron’s latest essay about what students teach teachers is up. Click here to read the full article on Teach Magazine.

Here’s an excerpt:

“Every conversation we have is either about an experience or is shaped by one. Simply experiencing is not enough, however, we must also reflect. As Emerson stated, “The years teach much which the days never know.” Some experiences we create, others are thrust upon us. We are in control, though, of how we work to understand and extract meaning from experience. Butter, sugar, eggs and flour will not beat themselves into a cookie.”

Cameron’s latest essay about what students teach teachers is up. Click here to read the full essay on Teach Magazine.

Here’s an excerpt:

“Many times in our life we think, “close, but not enough.” When we are in the best physical condition of our lives, we want a little more muscle. When we are financially stable, we want just a little more money. Even our own skin isn’t exempt; there are tanning beds to bronze our skin and whitening creams to lighten our complexion. This prefaces one of two things. First, the obvious: material objects matter greatly to us. It’s not just about cars and houses and jewellery, but even our skin, the material that houses us. Second: we treat the knowledge contained within our brains as though it’s material. We want what others know, then, once we “have” that, we want to know the things they do not.”