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We Must Do More Than Fill Students’ Vessels
I was especially dissatisfied with my own teaching when I started. Early in my teaching career, I was presented with a paradox that continues to shape my interests in education.… Read more
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The Importance of Helping Students Save Face
Are your hard to teach and underachieving students friendly and kind? Easy to get along with? Or are they often the students that drive your blood pressure up and tax… Read more
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Kindling Fires of Curiosity
“A mind is a fire to kindled, not a vessel to be filled.” (Plutarch) I am a Mainer who has lived in several homes heated by wood stoves, and have… Read more
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Making Lessons Interesting 2
It may not be possible to always tie curriculum into the students’ interests, even when teachers know their students well. I do believe, however, that we can make things interesting.… Read more
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Making Lessons Interesting 1
Intrinsic motivation (things that we're interested in) is probably our most powerful motivator. Interest as a motivator is not just building on what students are already interested in. It is… Read more
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Student Motivation: What Level of Engagement Are Your Students At?
I’ve worked a lot with schools wanting to motivate students, and we have largely focused on the “how.” In this work, I have named the conditions necessary for students to… Read more
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What’s to Blame for Kids Not Learning?
If you’ve been following this blog for a while, you know I believe all students can learn. You know I think there are “easy to teach” students and “hard to… Read more
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What Makes for Good Learning Experiences?
The more we try to to help build the talents of every student and help every learner succeed in school, the more we have to be deliberate about creating good… Read more
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We Had It All Backwards: The Two Types of Instruction
When I told my Curriculum Director, Shelly, about my thinking about there being two types of instruction (Instruction for Lower Level Thinking and Instruction for Higher Order Thinking), she seemed… Read more
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Thinking of Instruction as Two Types
When our pilot teachers were visiting a school that is a little further along than we are at implementing Customized Learning, a colleague and I got talking about how we… Read more
The Multiple Pathways Blog has moved to mikemuir.us!
I’ve been writing for years, via the MultiplePathways blog and the More Verbs blog, about motivating disengaged students, middle level education, learning through technology, and leadership for school change. All those writings have been brought together at mikemuir.us.
Top Motivation & Learning Posts
- Kindling Fires of Curiosity
- Focus on 6 High-Impact Motivation Strategies
- What Makes for a Good Learning Experience?
- The Good and Bad of Extrinsic Motivation
- Tone of Voice Matters (In Surprising Ways)
- Engaging Tasks
Top Leadership for Change Posts
Top Learning with Technology Posts
- Maine Learning Technology Framework
- Are We Talking Technology or are we Talking Learning?
- Not All At Once – Phases of Implementing Technology For Learning
Category List
- Advantage2014 – Auburn iPads
- Avoiding "Lock It/Block It"
- Branding and Buzz
- Burning Platform
- Classroom Management for Tech
- Curriculum Content & Organization
- Customized Learning
- Definition of Success and Measure
- Distributed PD Project
- Doing 1to1 Right
- Early Childhood Education
- Engaging Tasks
- Focus on the Learning
- Food For Thought
- Formative Feedback
- Funding
- Great Teachers
- Higher Order Thinking
- Ineffective Motivation
- Instruction for Foundational Knowledge
- Inviting Schools
- It Just Works: Devices
- It Just Works: Managed Software
- It Just Works: WiFi
- Lead4Change
- Leadership
- Learning as Desired Outcome
- Learning By Doing
- Learning Progress Management
- Learning-Centered Access
- Leveraging Learning Institute
- Living More Verbs
- Managing Ed Tech
- Managing School Change
- Micro-credentials
- Middle Level Education
- Misc.
- MLTI
- Motivation
- Multiple Pathways
- Policies & Procedures
- Professional Development
- Professional Learning
- Project-Based Learning
- Projects4ME
- Real World Connections
- School Structures
- Setting Expectations
- Shared Leadership
- Shared Vision
- Shared Vision for Learning
- Student Learning
- Student Motivation & Engagement
- Teacher Practice
- Technology as Tool For Learning
- Technology for Applying Knowledge
- Technology for Assessment
- Technology for Foundational Knowledge
- Technology for Home/School Connection
- Technology for Learning
- Technology Policies and Leadership
- Technology Resource Management
- Technology to Personalize Learning
- Uncategorized
- Voice & Choice
Mike Muir 