Want to Be a Better Teacher? Stop Talking

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It’s the hardest thing for a teacher to do. Stop talking. Unless we have assigned in-class writing or we are giving a test, we don’t like silence in the room. We are always trying to fill it with something.

But as someone who has been teaching for a while, I can tell you that silence is a good thing. You, as a teacher, should not fear it. You don’t have to fill every moment of class time…