Posted in Lessons Learned, technology on Jun 8th, 2009 8 Comments »
This is a cross-post that originally appeared on Reflections on Teaching
I love getting and reading the Sacramento Bee, and love being able to read it online. The comments however are a real mix of the bitter and the sweet. I hate how the limited space in the print version constricts representations of different points of [...]
Posted in Lessons Learned, Policy, Practice, Research, Theory on Dec 31st, 2008 32 Comments »
Dangerously Irrelevant: Beware outside consultants? – Part 2, Ruby Payne started a whole slew of arguments about poverty. Can education “fix” poverty? Can eduction be effective without addressing the underlying poverty of the poor? There were a lot of assumptions, especially among those with a deficit view, that I’ll sum up as “poor folks, have [...]
Posted in Lessons Learned on Dec 31st, 2008 No Comments »
Look no further! In Practice is looking for a few good guest bloggers to share their insights and wisdom about teaching in high poverty schools. Do you teach in a Title One school in the U.S. or a school anywhere else in the world that serves a high number of poor students? Do you feel [...]
Posted in Lessons Learned, technology on Sep 27th, 2008 12 Comments »
Earlier this month I wrote a post here critical of having students use cellphones in the classroom and shared why we banned their used during the school-day at my inner-city school.
In that same post I just briefly mentioned that this year we also banned iPods from the school, though I didn’t go into the reasons [...]
Posted in Lessons Learned, Policy, Practice on Aug 16th, 2008 2 Comments »
Larry Ferlazzo shares this “winner” from David Duebelbeiss Sixth Edition of the ELL/ESL/EFL Blog Carnival. It discusses the misguided efforts of Florida legislators to eliminate specific training for teachers of English Language Learners. It shares some quotes from a teacher name Holly, who feels she doesn’t need special training for her job, teaching [...]
