Posted in Practice on May 11th, 2008 9 Comments »
For two years now I have taught a gifted and talented (GT) fifth grade class. Prior to that I taught fourth and fifth grade classes with a significant number of second language learners and students with learning disabilities. (I should note that I still have many second language learners in my class.) Moving to the [...]
Posted in Practice on Apr 27th, 2008 17 Comments »
Bill Ferriter, I think, writes one of the most thought-provoking blogs around on education. I’d really encourage you to subscribe to it if you haven’t already. A couple of his posts have prompted me to write ones of my own here, and now he’s done it again…
Bill writes about Carl Chew, the teacher [...]
Posted in Policy, Practice on Apr 15th, 2008 12 Comments »
Part One: Differentiate This! Why?
was published in Creating Lifelong Learners
OK, we agree (or most of us do anyway) that we need to tailor our instruction to the students in our classroom.
We cannot teach effectively by planning lessons in isolation without considering the interaction between what we’ve planned and the students in our room, [...]
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 Practice on Apr 5th, 2008 14 Comments »
The first week of the second semester was tough. We have double-block classes for mainstream ninth-grade English, and the teacher of the other class was on maternity leave (our large inner-city high school is divided into Small Learning Communities of about 300 students each). So we had decided that I would get any new students [...]
