Teaching through Emotions

Teaching through Emotions

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Silence

Silence

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Betsy Burris
Sep 12, 2016
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Why is silence in the classroom so terrifying? I just want to muse for a moment on the issue of silence in the classroom.

I'm reminded of a professor from my grad school years, Mary Budd Rowe, who had done research on what she called "wait time." She discovered that teachers barely waited one second after asking students a question and after hearing a st…

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