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Go for DI and SFA
Teach Effectively! —
Authority: 114
Robert Slavin and colleagues reported that reading programs that provide extensive professional development on instructional strategies which promote student participation, strengthen phonics competence, and explicitly teach comprehension strategies are the best bets for improving reading achievement. The clearest ...4 days ago -
An Education
Tales from the Reading Room —
Authority: 504
So imagine that you’re nineteen years old with a place at Duke University to read American literature. And you sign up for an unusual course, one that promises to dispense with all the traditional and orthodox methods of teaching. You find yourself being sent to Toys ‘R Us with your teacher, and told to pick out ...4 days ago -
Some Tutoring Clients Just Aren’t a Good Fit
Dedicated Elementary Teacher Overseas —
Authority: 106
A teacher working with elementary students In any personal service business, setting goals and objectives with the clients is of utmost importance. Sometimes clients are not on the “same page” as the tutor. It’s important to agree on goals and objectives, or any program heads “south” quickly. I ...1 week ago -
Best Books for the Break?
Frankly Speaking —
Authority: 412
The last three posts have outlined the early history of American Evangelicalism. They explain, among other things, where Christianity Today magazine came from. The next installment in this series will be a few posts about American Evangelicals and Old Testament scholarship. A few years ago, starting with Volume 1, ...1 week ago -
To Kill a Mockingbird Critical Thinking Questions
A Teacher's Education —
Authority: 124
Here’s the quiz I gave to my I/II kids on Friday. Only 5 of my 13 kids answered both questions – and one of them didn’t answer any (and don’t even ASK about the vocabulary, because I’m too pissed off to give you a coherent answer). I’m on the fence about what to do about it, though. I’m leaning ...2 weeks ago -
Ezra Pound on Origins, Teaching, Traditions, and Poetry
Quiddity —
Authority: 429
A return to origins invigorates because it is a return to nature and reason. The man who returns to origins does so because he wishes to behave in an eternally sensible manner. That is to say, naturally, reasonably, intuitively. He does not wish to do the right thing in the wrong place, to “hang an ox with ...3 weeks ago -
JURN hops over 3,500
D'log :: blogging since 2000 —
Authority: 126
10 months after launching on 3rd Feb, JURN is now indexing just over 3,500 ejournals in the arts and humanities.3 weeks ago -
Differentiating Deliciously
Education On The Plate —
Authority: 451
Image via Wikipedia No, I’m not talking about the social bookmarking site . I’m talking about education and food. That’s what this blog is supposed to be about and in a Twitter response to my last post, @ToughLoveforX remarked that high schools should have teaching kitchens. I disagree. All schools ...3 weeks ago -
The Dumbest Generation
Digital Sextant —
Authority: 428
How the Digital Age Stupifies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Futureby Mark BauerleinIt seems apt to write a post about Bauerlein’s book the day after I reflect on Avery’s burgeoning digital talent. I’m going to characterize the book in a couple sets of bullets — things I think the book says, things I ...3 weeks ago -
LAUSD Knows How To Upset Me The Night Before Thanksgiving
Los Angelista's Guide To The Pursuit Of Happiness —
Authority: 512
Dear LAUSD Teachers, Want to know how to 1) make yourselves look incompetent and 2) upset a parent the afternoon before Thanksgiving? Send home a progress report with a whole bunch of things checked in the column with the big frowny face. Make sure those are things you have NEVER EVER - and I do mean NEVER EVER - ...4 weeks ago -
Some not-helpful fluency strategies
Teach Effectively! —
Authority: 114
Over on CDL there’s a brief explanation about why round-robin reading and silent reading are not effective methods for improving fluency in reading. It’s a summary by Jan Hasbrouck, a consultant who has done a fair bit of work in the area of special education, assessment (e.g., progress monitoring measures), ...4 weeks ago -
So well suited
The Plashing Vole: parataxis —
Authority: 141
Here I am again, wearing a classic tailored suit once more - after some teaching this morning, its lunch and my teaching qualification award - lets hope my Maximum Leader can forget that Ive asked her to resign in front of a couple of hundred people long enough to shake hands and smile. Ill be on my best behaviour - ...4 weeks ago
