success | Mr. Gonzalez's Classroom

May 29

Success Secrets

By Alfonso Gonzalez in Ed News
May 29, 2018

If you subscribe to Dan Pink’s email updates, his From the Desk on Daniel Pink, then you came across this Jeff Bezos memo that Dan shared on May 15. (Jeff Bezos is the founder, chairman, and CEO of Amazon in case you didn’t know.) I agreed with Dan that Jeff’s memo was totally worth reading. …

communication, community, edreform, Education, high, Parents, reform, standards, students, success
Leave comment

Permanent link to this article: https://educatoral.com/wordpress/2018/05/29/success-secrets/

Mar 25

What Am I Missing Here?

By Alfonso Gonzalez in Ed News
March 25, 2014

I need a fresh perspective on something I’ve been struggling with this school year. My reason for gamifying my courses was to motivate and engage more of my students whether they are gamers or not. Last week I reiterated something in blog post that I’ve learned in over 22 years of teaching, that no ONE …

22 Years, 8th Graders, Autonomy, Badges, Choices, Class Time, Different Ways, Experience Points, Gamelab, Grade Classes, Learners, Learning Environment, Learning Science, motivation, Own Pace, Perspective, Pink, School Year, Science Concepts, Sentences, Struggle, success, Topi
5 comments

Permanent link to this article: https://educatoral.com/wordpress/2014/03/25/what-am-i-missing-here/

Aug 02

In My Humble Opinion

By Alfonso Gonzalez in Assessment, Ed News, Grades & HW
August 2, 2011

Face to face conversations with my next door teaching neighbor about going gradeless and helping students learn without worrying about covering enough curriculum to pass a standardized test has been helpful for me. I get to think deeply about my beliefs about how I think students learn best and about accountability and if I’m doing …

6th Graders, Accountability, Barf, Best Interest, Challenges, Colleague, Colleauge, Conversations, Curriculum, Face To Face, Homeroom, Kids Science, Neighbor, plc, Poor Kids, Poverty, School Year, Signs, Standardized Test, success, Test Scores, West Seattle
2 comments

Permanent link to this article: https://educatoral.com/wordpress/2011/08/02/in_my_humble_opinion/

Apr 15

Promoting Inquiry Through Exploring Predictions

By Alfonso Gonzalez in Science
April 15, 2011

Cross post I wrote for the Inquire Within Blog. A few years back I was fortunate enough to be able to participate in an online media production professional development toolkit for middle school educators. Vulcan Productions teamed up with Education Development Center to create Success at the Core. Registering for free at their site gives …

Permanent link to this article: https://educatoral.com/wordpress/2011/04/15/promoting-inquiry-through-exploring-predictions/

Aug 12

My Concerns as an Educator

By Alfonso Gonzalez in Class News
August 12, 2010

Many of the blogs I’ve been reading, twitter conversations I’ve been reading or participating in, twitter chats I’ve been participating in, and guest blogs I’ve been writing and reading have been bringing back a nagging concern I have for our students. I think I’ve also read the response in the same tweets and blogs that …