by Michael Nicoloff | Mar 12, 2018
From Teaching as Principled Practice: Managing Complexity for Social Justice. Excerpt: Teaching is hard-too hard to attempt in isolation. The promise of collegiality is far too great to ignore. Yet, Colleen’s statement about time illustrates one of the many...
by Michael Nicoloff | Feb 26, 2018
From Educational Leadership, Volume 55, Issue 6. Abstract: Available evidence suggests that Japanese elementary science education has shifted, in recent decades, away from lecture-style, rote “teaching as telling” toward ‘teaching for...
by Michael Nicoloff | Feb 26, 2018
From Educational Leadership, Volume 55, Issue 6. Excerpt: We recently hosted a young Japanese schoolteacher who, after asking us many questions about American elementary schools, turned to the questions that were really on his mind: How many Americans carry guns to...
by Michael Nicoloff | Feb 26, 2018
Paper delivered at AERA Conference, New Orleans, 2002. Abstract: Lesson study is a widespread form of professional development in Japan that has recently emerged in a number of U.S. sites. This paper describes a collaboration between researchers and practitioners at...
by Michael Nicoloff | Feb 26, 2018
From Nagoya Journal of Education and Human Development, January 2002, No. 1. Excerpt: When I lived in Japan during 1967, I learned to love sushi. At that time, there were just a few sushi restaurants in the US, patronized almost exclusively by Japanese. I would have...
