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 10 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 [...]
Posted in Lessons Learned, Practice, Research, Theory on Mar 13th, 2008 2 Comments »
Reading comprehension tends to be an area in need of improvement in many schools with high concentrations of English Language Learners, Standard English Learners, and even some “high performing” schools admit that students can read but they don’t know what they’re reading. We tend to teach the same way we’ve been taught. However, [...]
Posted in Practice, technology on Mar 4th, 2008 9 Comments »
I’ve written several posts here sharing my skepticism about technology in the classroom, and my impatience with some who complain about Teachers Who Won’t Embrace Technology. I’ve also written about some technology experiments I’m trying in our school, including next year teaching one class all with laptops (or all in the computer lab) and [...]
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 [...]
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