Posted in Lessons Learned, Practice on Dec 31st, 2007 4 Comments »
cross-posted from Creating Lifelong Learners
Listening to one teacher talk for six hours a day can be boring for anyone. If you have limited English language experience, as many Title I students do, it can be torturous and incomprehensible. Rather than bemoan students’ lack of interest, how about changing your act? You can make content [...]
Posted in Policy, Practice, Theory on Dec 28th, 2007 1 Comment »
Okay, (now you know it’s Alice writing) since there was a mixup with authorship, I wanted to say that this post will be from both Michaele and me whatever the credits come up with…This starts from an email I got from Michaele today about phonics based instruction, and the [...]
Posted in Research, Theory, Web 2.0 on Dec 21st, 2007 1 Comment »
Well, the title was definitely my style in, Wonder If This Is Going to Work, a post that Larry Ferlazzo recently had me assist in adding to the blog. The problem was that although the original post was put up with me as the author for only a minute or two, it went out on [...]
Posted in Lessons, Ideas, Research, Theory, Web 2.0 on Dec 21st, 2007 6 Comments »
I’ve posted in the past about my feeling skeptical if an engaging curriculum utilizing technology would be more beneficial to students than an engaging curriculum without extensive tech use. I’ve also shared, though, about how I am certainly open to be proven wrong, and that I hoped to teach two classes of the same [...]
Posted in Practice on Dec 14th, 2007 2 Comments »
One of the greatest challenges of teaching is the isolation. Many of us do better if we have the chance to talk to other professionals. I would assume that most schools (if not all) have some sort of formal process for brainstorming about students. Our school has a Student Support Committee that meets monthly and [...]
