On the WSRA website you may access a broadcast of Richard Allenton’s address at the last 2005 convention. This man’s reflections and comments are worth the hour to listen to the video broadcast. I just listened to the audio portion and could work on other things as I listened.
www.wsra.org and click on Allenton on the right [...]
C. Question of the Day
Open ended question designed to connect children to a concept of the day. Question may take place of KWL. Question may lead students to generate questions on something they will study.
Procedure:
Teacher writes the Question of the Day on the board or overhead. The question must be stimulating and not require [...]
These strategies were chosen by Patti Ball from A handbook of content Literacy Strategies: 75 Practical Reading and Writing Ideas (2000) by Elaine c. Stephens and Jean E. Brown. I will post two strategies at a time so that it is not so overwhelming to read. Many of these strategies you have likely used. But [...]
Resources for using google.earth in the classroom.
This is one tremendous site. I enjoy visiting it when I have nothing else to do in the evening. I can travel to all my destinations on a trial run and see (visualize) where I am.
Last weekend we tried out my husbands GPS and ended up miles beyond our [...]
In Education Week for April 12 ( you can tell I am a bit behind in my reading) there is an article titled A Seond Look At compulsory Education by Dennis L. Evans. While I cannot get excited about each of his points, I think he has identified the problem of education the teen aged [...]
