Definition of insanity...

is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

I wonder about this with respect to reteaching.  In one of the classes I'm observing, the students who do poorly on tests get pulled aside be to retaught the material, while the others do some sort of enrichment activity.  The students may have failed the test for a variety of reasons:  a bad day, absence from school beforehand, careless mistakes, or not understanding.  The reteaching is done in the same way that the original teaching was done, and does not seem to help the kids who tried but didn't get it the first time around.  This seems exactly the time to try something different, as you have proof that it didn't work the first time around...

Limited by its public nature?...

Each week as I think about the time in my placement, there are always a bunch of incidents/conversations/ideas which I need to think through, and would welcome the perspective of the rest of the cohort.  But, because I worry that somehow, someday, a teacher from my school will randomly come across this blog, I don't write about it.  Does anyone else worry about this?

Certainly this limits what I blog about to safer topics - and that also generally keeps it away from the topics that I am working and worrying about at any given time.