Yearly Archive: 2010

Youtube v.s. Books

On YouTube, “you can get a whole story in six minutes,” he explains. “A book takes so long. I prefer the immediate gratification. Unchecked...

How Learning Should Be

“This is how learning should be,” she said. “It should be active, it should be engaging. It should use a variety of modalities. That’s...

Project Based Learning

Many of us out there know that project-based learning (PBL) inspires students to understand core content knowledge more deeply and gain key skills for...

Teaching is like theater

My old principal once made a comment that good teaching was like good theater; you got into character and at the end of the...

Standards’ Impact for Special Ed.

Special education advocates are greeting the burgeoning common academic standards movement with a mixture of optimism and caution. Education Week: Standards’ Impact for Special...

An educator of the 21st century

Converts their classroom/life to Web 2.0. Bookmarks socially. Constantly reads RSS feeds from relevant blogs. Blogs and tweets about their experiences. Regularly, attends professional development conferences to further their knowledge. Embraces social networking to create a PLN for exchanging ideas.

What is differentiation?

Differentiated instruction, also called differentiation, is a process through which teachers enhance learning by matching student characteristics to instruction and assessment. For ideas go...