Reflections on Teaching

Let’s see where things stand today from Jon Becker, Still Separate, Still Unequal? (Final Thoughts) (Education – Change.org)

Today, nearly three out of every four African-American students in the U.S. attends a school that is majority-minority.
1 out of every 6 African-American children in the United States now attends a school where less than one percent [...]

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I’m moving my student blogs to edublogs campus, and changing the approach. Instead of doing blogs by “grade-level” I’ve set up the blogs to follow the students from one grade-level to the next. The blogs are titled for the year students will “leave” Oak Ridge Elementary for middle school. They are:
Class of 2012 for this [...]

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The tools

When you are at NECC, sometimes you miss things that happen, and only catch them in passing from the comments of others. Comments about some tweets seem to be making the rounds and focus on the idea that this NECC just doesn’t have any new cool tools coming out of it. Since I’ve been [...]

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The Edublogs Live! session I am doing on VoiceThread: A 21st Century K-W-L has been changed from Thursday 6/18 to Friday 6/19 at 7 p.m. PDT. Hope to see you then!

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This line comes from the values statement at my congregation, and it got me thinking about whether I was really living up to that goal. This post is the result of some of that reflection and will included references to my religion in a way that I hope is not annoying or offensive.  As they [...]

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It started with a “tweet” from Deven Black, where he lamented about a student placement. I convinced him to blog about it for the upcoming ESL/EFL/ELL Carnival. Here’s the story in Vice Versa « Education On The Plate:
When she arrived from Ecuador two years ago, Juanita, who barely spoke ten words of English, was placed [...]

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But I’ve gotten behind on work, and have a couple of new projects I need to work on for the students, and I may not have writing time until next weekend. I will be reposting Part III of my series on stereotype bias and the perversion of incentive. Some of the links got messed up [...]

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Photo Credit: Photo of Crying Eye on flickr
As many of you know, I have been doing web site/activity reviews for Instructify, which is part of Learn NC out of University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. Budget times being what they are, they have frozen any further spending for contract workers, like myself. There is the [...]

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