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Voki is a combination of the Latin word “vox” meaning voice and “Loki” the mischievous god of Norse mythology. Now, there [...]
The 80/20 Rule is one of the most helpful of all concepts of time and life management. It is also called the “Pareto Principle” after its founder, the Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto, who first wrote about it in 1895. Pareto noticed that people in his society seemed to divide naturally into what he called the [...]
It’s no surprise that students supported by parents involved in their education tend to exhibit higher achievement; this study breaks down parental involvement into subtypes to see what actions make the most difference across 50 studies.
The authors of “Parental Involvement in Middle School: A Meta-Analytic Assessment of the Strategies That Promote Achievement” find that involvement [...]
Recently I volunteered at our local hospital. The occasion was a celebration for the 2000 hospital employees. The celebration theme was a carnival and there were games, caricatures, a dunking booth, a rock climbing wall, and plenty of food in the serving line. It was a typically hot, July day with temperatures in the 100’s.
All [...]
For generations, the academic community has relied on peer review as a way of enhancing the knowledge base and encouraging serious scholarship. Peer review can offer many of the same benefit to students… [and] computers [can] mediate the interaction among peers. Gehringer (2000)
· Peer Review reflects constructive guidance at its collaborative best.
· As [...]
It is the end of the school year and you may feel like
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Hello! You have reached the automated answering service of your school. In order to assist you in connecting to the right staff member, please listen to all
the options before making a selection:
To lie about why your child is absent…. Press 1
To make excuses for why your child did not do his work….Press 2
To complain about [...]
“An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul [...]
“I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music”
–Joan Miró
Joan Miro was an artist who appealed to my students. They appreciated his work because in Miro’s versatility there were many interpretations that appealed to their learning style. For linear, mathematic, and/or musical students, repeating patterns appeared prominently. The amorphous [...]
Well, you have seen them too—the back-to-school commercials. It is almost that time of year.
One of the initial activities in the back-to-school task list is the Student Information Sheet.
Why not add a small section to your Student Information Sheet to reflect your students’ technology skills. If you have a hardcopy handout, add a small section [...]
Please post your Learning COBs here.
or another option
Click on the Health A-Z link (link is on the Blogroll)
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Anticipatory set (Warm-Up)
Purpose (Objective)
Input (Content)
Modeling (Show)
Guided Practice (Follow me)
Checking for Understanding (CFU)
Independent Practice
Teach your partner
Closure
Please choose one Lesson Cycle Step and add a technology integration component as a Comment.
Thank you!
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Google Earth delivers great resources for your science curriculum Click this link to learn how scientists visualize and communicate the phenomena they study. Google Earth displays the migration patterns of endangered and other threatened animals, based on data collected by the Commission for Environmental Cooperation.
Google Earth offers anyone the opportunity to take geographical data and [...]
Meetings that stay on task, on target, and on time are not the stuff of legend or fantasy.
30-minute meetings can be a reality. Click here for more information
Also, Jan O’Neill has a great article on the 30-minute meeting. Google and read all about it.
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Watching the Weather Channel tonight, I saw a sea of red across the U.S. indicating hot, hot, HOT temps. Definitely not sweater-weather! The only layers I want to see are in my curriculum, specifically in a layered-approach curriculum.
Layered Curriculum Unit Example: (scroll to page 10) Click here.
For a link to one teacher’s practical implementation of [...]
Viewing, interpreting, and using data will help me….
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The kids need you and the web keeps marching on…not to worry, 4OOPS’ EduTech news Feed has these top stories of interest to educators:
June 11, 2008 From Education Week: Teachers Achieving ‘Highly Qualified’ Status on the Rise
June 5, 2008 From Science Daily: Gaze aversion helps educators understand the educational progress of students.
June 5, 2008 From [...]
“Rubrics make the students’ lives much easier, but once written, they make the teacher’s life easier, too,” says Dr. Lena Nuccio-Lee, Assistant Professor of Professional Practice at the University of New Orleans. See the complete story here. Technology tools online also enable us to customize assessment for student groups. Does Timmy need to concentrate on [...]
The kids need you and the web keeps marching on…not to worry, 4OOPS’ EduTech news Feed has these top stories of interest to educators:
May 29 From Edutopia: Readers’s Reveal Education’s Best http://www.edutopia.org/readers-survey-2008
May 29 From ASCD Maryland school first in state to attain 100% proficiency
Every third- and fourth-grader at one Maryland elementary school passed the state’s [...]
As you begin to say goodbye to this school year, take just a minute to consider next year. Yes, next year. Time marches on faster than ants to a summer picnic blanket. A couple of proactive steps now will do wonders.
School Counselor Shannon Hutton, warns, “kids often get “antsy” about moving to the next grade.” [...]
