Reflections on Teaching

Okay, I’m always a little puzzled when I hear Larry Ferlazzo say stuff like this:
We spend very little time on direct test-preparation (the day before the tests begins, several of my colleagues and I may spend a half-hour on test-taking strategies and specific test “vocabulary”), but we spend the rest of the year preparing students [...]

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I must be on auto-pilot (a bad thing) because I don’t have a lot memories about what happened this week. It did end with me attending the Classroom 2.0 Conference and the last thing I did at work was a training for my district. There is something about Friday that gives a “cap stone” to [...]

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In response to suggestions from  Nancy, Dan , and  Lesley at Thanks Tom!, here are some initial shots I took today…

Thoughts and feedback appreciated.

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Among the many adjustments that have been difficult going from teaching one class with one grade level, is writing appropriate objectives for each grade level. I had been doing something generic, but like many generic templates, I felt like I wasn’t saying anything of substance. Here is what a Sixth Grade standard used to look [...]

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Tom Woodward, at Bionic Teaching, who was one of my peers giving feedback that led to Before and After…, really went the extra mile, in Picking up Gauntlets is Heavy Work, where he basically went through the whole slidedeck for a preso, and offered some alternatives.  VERY impressive. So here is one section with changes [...]

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Here is my response to the feedback I received on “Four Slides on Stock vs. Authentic Images”:

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or this version:

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Version Three

I want to thank the following commenters for their feedback:
Tom Woodward at Bionic Teaching for suggesting the cake scenario.
Mathew Needleman at Creating Lifelong Learners for suggesting keeping the rose photos, but chopping down the amount [...]

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FYI, Wes Fryer has opened up the NECC blog for folks to post articles on how they use technology in their classrooms. This not only helps Wes generate content, but will be a show case for the power of technology (well used) in the classroom.
The first article came from Nancy Pratt, about a story telling [...]

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Well, I’ve posted up on Picking Up The Gauntlet at dy/dan and gotten no response. Perhaps folks really don’t want to weed though a 45-60 minute preso to see if my slides and audio go well together, so in the interest of getting feed back, here is a shorter bit:
These slides all come from a [...]

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