Posted in Theory on Jun 25th, 2008 5 Comments »
Teachers often complain about the sheer number of things they are expected to do in their job. Emails circulate listing the various ‘jobs’ a teacher does: social worker, nurse, career planner, coach, librarian, mentor, parent, and more. As I reflect back on this school year I’ve been thinking about the various things a school does [...]
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 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 Policy, Practice, Theory, Web 2.0, technology on Jan 14th, 2008 6 Comments »
Hey, a girls entitled to change her mind…
Earlier, I talked about why Larry Ferlazzo got it right when he said face to face relationships have a quality that can’t be replicated online. Now, I’ll bring some thoughts up to the contrary.
Here are some caveats to that point…Larry himself, has already had to eat his words [...]
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