Carol Ann Tomlinson Quotes About Teaching

Quotes about: Teaching

• A gifted teacher has an unfailing eye for magical classrooms & loses sleep over anything less than the highest quality.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Teacher, Teaching, Sleep

• A teacher in a differentiated classroom does not classify herself as someone who ‘already differentiates instruction.’ Rather that teacher is fully aware that every hour of teaching, every day in the classroom can reveal one more way to make the classroom a better match for its learners.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Teacher, Teaching, Doe

  Carol Ann Tomlinson (2001). “How to Differentiate Instruction in Mixed-Ability Classrooms, 2nd Edition”, p.29, ASCD

• Teaching is a very habit-bound endeavor. We're unsettled by the unfamiliar. We're creatures of habit too.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Teaching, Habit, Endeavor

  Source: blogs.edweek.org

• It is not so important to have all the answers as to be hungry for them.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Teaching, Important, Answers

  Carol Ann Tomlinson (2014). “Differentiated Classroom: Responding to the Needs of All Learners, 2nd Edition”, p.48, ASCD

• Plan to be better today, but don't ever plan to be finished

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Teaching, Learning, Today

  Carol Ann Tomlinson (2014). “The Differentiated Classroom: Responding to the Needs of All Learners, 2nd Edition”, p.10, ASCD

• Teachers craft classrooms that are good matches for their teaching styles as well as for learner needs.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Teacher, Teaching, Style

• [Students] often have a "We can figure this out - don't just tell us" attitude. In that way, they can be less patient with "traditional" approaches to teaching.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Attitude, Teaching, Way

  Source: blogs.edweek.org

• We're teaching a generation of students who've been schooled to produce quick, right answers on demand. They are not comfortable with ambiguity. The implications of that in the long term are discomforting.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Teaching, Long, Generations

  Source: blogs.edweek.org

• We need teacher educators who are hungry to learn about and implement contemporary approaches to teaching and learning in their own classrooms and who are reflective about their work with their students.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Teacher, Teaching, Needs

  Source: blogs.edweek.org

• Differentiation is simply a teacher attending to the learning needs of a particular student or small groups of students, rather than teaching a class as though all individuals in it were basically alike.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Teacher, Teaching, Class

• I have little interest in a surgeon who says, "I learned that when I was in medical school. Why should I revisit it?" or who says, "I've done that operation the same way for ten years. Don't bother me with new approaches." I see teaching in the same way.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Teaching, School, Years

  Source: blogs.edweek.org

• Differentiated Instruction is a teaching philosophy based on the premise that teachers should adapt instruction to student differences. Rather than marching students through the curriculum lockstep, teachers should modify their instruction to meet students' varying readiness levels, learning preferences, and interests. Therefore, the teacher proactively plans a variety of ways to 'get it' and express learning.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Teacher, Philosophy, Teaching

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