Every educator’s pre-Thanksgiving day ritual should include some head-scratching, thought-provoking reading about the craft of teaching to counterbalance any exam correcting that may also be on the docket. It is my hope that this week’s Friday 4 can serve that purpose for you.

•  Achieve, Achieve, Achieve: The Monster of Our Own Making is a post that recently appeared on the TABS (The Association of Boarding Schools) blog that is a good reminder to any and all who teach and work in a boarding school.
• Ever been confused about the difference between personalization, differentiation and individualization when reading education related articles? Here is a nice short piece from SmartBlog on Education that will hopefully clear it up for you.
• 7 Ways to Deal With Digital Distractions in the Classroom comes from the Edudemic website and offers some good suggestions for a sometime tricky issue.
• The Edutopia website posted a piece in the Teaching Strategies section of their website today The 4Ss of Note-Taking With Technology that was a response, of sorts, to a research article that garnered quite a bit of press recently titled “The Pen Is Mightier Than the Keyboard: Advantages of Longhand Over Laptop Note Taking.“

I hope that you have a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday with family and friends and that you find some time to peruse a few of this week’s items. Enjoy!