United States swimmer, 2000–2016
Recorded · CBS News · 2018
I think it's something that nobody's really talked about in the past because we're supposed to be this big, macho, strong person that has no weaknesses.
Teaching & development
Teachers who changed how people learn
Concrete teaching judgment: how understanding, trust, feedback, expectations, and lasting learning actually work.
12 questions, 216 quoted from what public figures said elsewhere, each with its source. Every question is asked in FLAPSS wording — nobody answers as anybody else.
Worth reading
What bad recommendations do people in your field repeat too often?
Co-founder and co-chairman of Oaktree Capital Management
Recorded · Oaktree Capital Management (client memo) · 2001
There are a few things I dismiss and a few I believe in thoroughly.
Founder of Grameen Bank; Nobel Peace Prize laureate, 2006
Recorded · The Nobel Foundation · 2006
I am in favor of strengthening the freedom of the market. At the same time, I am very unhappy about the conceptual restrictions imposed on the players in the market.
Every question in this questionnaire
- How can you tell when a student understands something rather than merely performing the right steps? —
- What makes you want to keep learning? 9
- Which misconception about learning did experience force you to abandon? —
- What are you best at that nobody watching would notice? 26
- How do you earn the trust of a student who expects school or teachers to fail them? —
- How do you respond to unequal needs without quietly lowering expectations for some students? —
- How do you give corrective feedback that changes the work without making the student feel diminished? —
- What bad recommendations do people in your field repeat too often? 32
- How has a setback or failure set you up for later success? 69
- What line from a parent, teacher, or mentor do you still repeat to yourself? 23
- What do you hope students carry from your classroom that will never appear on a test? —
- Which teacher, parent, coach, or friend most made you who you are, and what did you learn from them? 57
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