In Practice

This is in response to Alex’s comment on my last post. The comment pixies are not letting me comment on that post, and the comment was long enough to make another post, so here it is…
Alex, thank you very much for comment, you bring up some excellent points.
First, the answer is in part of your [...]

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“It’s no cop-out to acknowledge the effects of socioeconomic disparities on student learning. Rather, it’s a vital step to closing the achievement gap.”
 So begins the article on the ASCD web site:Whose Problem Is Poverty? by Richard Rothstein  This might be a “must read” for teachers in Title 1 schools. Mr. Rothstein explains why students from low socio-economic [...]

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“You can teach a lesson effectively without technology, and students can learn without it.”
 
Agreed … I teach some effective lessons without it and I learned things in school without it and so did my parents and their parents. Einstein was pretty smart I’ve heard, and he didn’t have the technology available to him that we [...]

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It’s been a fast and furious 6 months since we started In Practice. Lots of great posts, lots of great conversations. In the interim, we’ve added two new bloggers to our group, so I wanted to take the opportunity to formally acknowledge their coming aboard.
Jennifer Orr is an elementary educator in Fairfax County, VA. and [...]

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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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