Posted in Lessons Learned on Feb 28th, 2008 No Comments »
Revisiting posts by myself and others about teaching using scripts, and teaching general, Doug Noon fleshes out my arguments (not original) that no script can take the place of a professional educator in Borderland » Blog Archive » The Right Way to Teach
It reminded me of an earlier post here by Mathew Needleman: » Letter [...]
Posted in Policy on Feb 25th, 2008 1 Comment »
First, interesting discussion in the comments for this post, » Reason #6 Why We Need To Teach Real Science Again In At Risk Schools In Practice:
Alice Mercer:
Sad, see these new readers have units that are about science and about social studies, but they really seem to teach those subjects using the polka dot method. This [...]
Posted in Lessons Learned on Feb 23rd, 2008 11 Comments »
As in many “At Risk” or Title 1 schools, my school (with the exception of a few teachers) stopped teaching Science and Social Studies and made art only something you do on special occasions like Christmas or Valentines Day – to focus entirely on “Literacy” and math. This was pretty much universally true in the [...]
Posted in Practice on Feb 20th, 2008 1 Comment »
Bless » The Skeptic Responds The Line for her kind praise of my earlier twin pieces on using technology to meeting the listening and speaking component of the English Language Learner standards.
I discussed how doing audio projects online (or just doing them period), is critical to key standards for English Language Learners that they are [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 18th, 2008 No Comments »
It’s been a fast and furious 6 months since we started In Practice. Lots of great posts, lots of great conversations. In the interim, we’ve added two new bloggers to our group, so I wanted to take the opportunity to formally acknowledge their coming aboard.
Jennifer Orr is an elementary educator in Fairfax County, VA. and [...]
