Reflections on Teaching

Creating Lifelong Learners » Blog Archive » How to Use a Teacher’s Assistant (But Not for Fun or Profit) Generating what Mathew considers to be controversy (hey on the web, it’s not controversy until Hitler is cited), this article talks about the effective use of teacher’s assistants (hint, it doesn’t involve copiers). I add [...]

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It was a multi-tasking, task-switching kind of week

from Idleberry’s Photostream on Flickr
(copyright used with permission of artist)

First, I skipped work for a field trip with Leroy’s class on Tuesday (click for slideshow):

Okay, back to work…
Links for Third Grade: VoiceThread This is a Voice Thread that I’ve done for the third grade Money unit in Open [...]

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Principal unveiled our upgraded staff lounge after semi-monthly meeting:

Potluck breakfast is scheduled for tomorrow.

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Bless » The Skeptic Responds The Line for her kind praise of my earlier twin pieces on using technology to meeting the listening and speaking component of the English Language Learner standards.
I discussed how doing audio projects online (or just doing them period), is critical to key standards for English Language Learners that they are [...]

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From my friend Carrie, a Web site designer at UC Berekley:
A Brief Message: No Child Left Behind Is Leaving Designers Behind

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Dangerously Irrelevant: Contest: Six-word motto for your nation’s schools? has lots of great entries. Here are some of my favorites:
USA:
Unhealthy Relationship With The Status Quo
or
Organizational Tortoises: Evolving in Revolutionary Times
or
Rudderless in the Sea of Change
Take your pick. I think they are all appropriate.
Posted by: Dave | February 06, 2008 at 10:29 AM
Another solution to a [...]

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Two pieces about teaching reading recently. First from Dangerously Irrelevant: Day One: Are You Following the Script? where Greg Cruey discussed using a scripted curriculum that is new to his school, and finishes with the following:
I understand the complaints that people have about working with a scripted curriculum. As we climb through the [...]

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I’m not going to question the madness that possessed Dr. McLeod to select this blog as deserving a bigger audience. Dr. McLeod has been both an inspiration and a helping hand as I began my journey in edublogging. I still am amazed at the amount of time that someone whose mission is supporting administrators and [...]

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