Teachers today are frequently told to avoid lecture for more project-based learning The catchphrase of the era is that teachers should move from being the quot sage on the stage quot to the quot guide on the side quot Teachers are urged to be quot learning designers quot or quot learning fa
Matt Emerson
Matt Emerson is the author of Why Faith? A Journey of Discovery (Paulist Press, 2016). His writing has appeared in numerous publications, including America and The Wall Street Journal.
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Update in Florida Bullying Case: Charges Dropped
I recently wrote about the horrendous case of Rebecca Ann Sedwick a 12-year-old who jumped to her death from a cement plant after enduring repeated attacks of cyber-bullying In the wake of her death the Polk County sheriff 39 s office Florida filed charges against two of Rebecca 39 s peers on
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Merton and the ‘True Self’
Writing about Paul Elie yesterday has me recalling a passage from his outstanding book nbsp The Life You Save May be Your Own I first read it in law school when I was searching intensely for my own place for my own path for that combination of career location and life plan that like a railroad
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Paul Elie on Faith and Fiction
Readers who enjoyed yesterday 39 s post about Dana Gioia and his nbsp article on Catholic writers might be interested in Paul Elie 39 s thoughts from last year on nbsp a subject in the same family nbsp In the Dec 19 2012 nbsp New York Times in an op-ed titled quot Has Fiction Lost its Faith
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Dana Gioia and ‘The Catholic Writer’
The latest blog from Matt Emerson at ‘The Ignatian Educator’
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The Socratic Review Responds
Ryan Williamson who runs the blog titled the quot Socratic Review quot what Williamson describes as quot the intersection of modern technology and classical education quot has written a thoughtful critique of my post from yesterday In that post quot Avoiding Education as Self-Checkout Line
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Avoiding Education As Self-Checkout Line
The latest blog from Matt Emerson at “The Ignatian Educator”
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In That Sweet Mood…
Earlier this week in the early evening I stepped out of my office and looked up to see the sun glowing behind the mountains see picture right It was an interrupting beauty instantly transporting me from lesser concerns nbsp But as I lingered and adored I fell into a state that Wordsworth de
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Writing In the Shadow of Death
Writers like to write in the shadow of death nbsp ldquo Write rdquo writes Annie Dillard ldquo as if you were dying At the same time assume you write for an audience consisting solely of terminal patients That is after all the case What would you begin writing if you knew you would die s
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On ‘Finding’ a Vocation
To be a teacher is to be constantly thinking about the future We think about where we are heading with our lesson plans the date for the next test the responsibility of preparing students for the next English class or the higher math class or for a college or career And in that preparation in