Posted in Early Childhood/Kindergarten, Policy on Apr 13th, 2008 No Comments »
We seem to be on a kindergarten theme here so to spread it around, I’ve put my next post on this topic on The Blog of Ms. Mercer, where I discuss many of the kinder policies that make their reform more pressing to my mind than universal pre-school. Hope to see you there!
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Posted in Policy, Practice, Research, Theory on Apr 12th, 2008 3 Comments »
Since being named a blogger that Deserves a Bigger Audience, I’ve taken to reading eduwonkette, which received the same accolade. I thought of two pieces recently when reading posts here from Doug Noon, and Michaele Sommerville. Michaele thought I was eating too much paste, or something when I said I was going to tie in [...]
Posted in Policy, Theory on Mar 18th, 2008 2 Comments »
The concept of life long learner is one that as a teacher I subscribe to. Graduating from college and starting my career has been the beginning of my education. With the advent of the internet and now Web 2.0 this is more true than ever. The last month or so, I’ve been [...]
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 Humor, Lessons Learned, Policy, Practice, Uncategorized, technology on Feb 13th, 2008 3 Comments »
Many bloggers have written complaining about teachers not using technology in their classrooms. Rather than complain, Jeff Utecht’s recent post on “Evaluating Technology Use” established a rubric for evaluating technology use. But what if you are a new teacher or you aren’t using technology in your classroom now? It’s not reasonable to expect that you’re [...]
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