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...
September 30, 2010
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...
September 23, 2010
Ithaca by Constantine P. Cavafy
Audio Please click here if you don’t see an audio player above. Ithaca When you set out on your journey to Ithaca, pray that the road...
September 13, 2010
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.
September 13, 2010
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...
September 9, 2010
Why American Schools Must Go Green
Schools can go green by deploying rooftop solar systems or tapping into wind energy projects by using a model that requires little to no...
September 9, 2010
Rules & Routines
When we are effective, the majority of kids are learning and getting what they need, goals and objectives are achieved, and we teachers feel...
September 9, 2010
Go after the “New Cheese”
As a part of our professional development our principal sent us the book, Who Moved My Cheese? . As soon as I read the title I thought what does this have to do with education. Giving in to to my curiosity, I opened the book and read the first page.
September 7, 2010
The Evolution of the Web
Web 1.0 static content/HTML Web 2.0 users contribute to content(i.e. Blogs, YouTube) Web 3.0 semantic web personalization search engines that learn from you more...
September 7, 2010