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Monthly Archives: April 2008
Create a digital white board with a Wii controller.
Franchise Whale describes how a teacher can create a digital whiteboard with a $40 Wii controller. Johnny Lee offers a video to show you how to do it. I haven’t tried it, so please let me know how it works … Continue reading
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Our School Beat the Odds
Joanne Jacobs’ (2005) book Our School: The Inspiring Story of Two Teachers, One Big Idea and the Charter School That Beat the Odds (Palgrave Macmillan, Nov. 29, 2005) tells the saga of a San Jose charter high school that prepares … Continue reading
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Teacher Term Limits, Continued
Setting term limits on teachers seems counterintuitive as a way to address a teacher shortage while educators face increasingly transparent public accountability. Considering term limits seems a reasonable way to examine what and maybe how current schooling practices limit student … Continue reading
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Educate the Head, Hand, and Heart
Northfield Mount Hermon School prepares its students for college and for life … the faculty sets high standards and holds students accountable, leading them to aspirations and achievements that exceed their previous expectations and accomplishments. Mission, Northfield Mt. Harmon School … Continue reading
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Mark Twain I.S. Term Paper Guide
Faculty of the Mark Twain Intermediate School 239 for the Gifted and Talented offer a useful guide for writing term papers. Students of all ages and teachers will find it a useful reminder to supplement those writer’s block moments under … Continue reading
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Back of the Napkin Problem Solving
bnet.com offers this book video brief: In his book, The Back Of The Napkin, author Dan Roam asserts that that everyone is born with a talent for visual thinking, but that we — especially in the business world — are … Continue reading
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Teacher Term Limits
As a sometimes contributor to the Contrarian Institute of Educators, it seems useful to explore this proposition: All public school teacher (including administrator) contracts should include a sunset or term limit clause. Contrarianism holds a venerable position in scholarship and … Continue reading
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Learning Efficiency Scale, POC 1.1
After drafting a series of principles and checklists related to learning efficiency, I decided to see if I had enough material to draft a proof of concept (POC) learning efficiency scale (LES). Here is an updated version of that draft. … Continue reading
College Prep for Student with Intellectual Disabilities – Part 4
This fourth installment of the series preparing your child with an intellectual disability for college illustrates ways to use assumptions about learning to a student’s advantage. I describe more of how I assess teaching-learning processes for that preparation. These descriptions … Continue reading
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Toshiba America Foundation Grants Promote U.S. Science and Math Education
Toshiba America Foundation offers grants to support your classroom instruction in science and mathematics education in U.S. schools. Grants are made for programs and activities that improve teaching and learning in science and mathematics, grades K-12. The Foundation focuses its … Continue reading
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