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Written by John Churchman
Over the last several months, we have received increased email traffic regarding curriculum, lesson plans, student activities and projects that our readers can use to stimulate the interest and creativity of their [...]

Co-teaching, Team-teaching, Tag-teaching?

Sunday, March 16th, 2008

Some thoughts on co-teaching.
With the SAGE program where the state subsidizes teachers in a 16:1 situation, the term co-teaching has surfaced. Through discussions and meditation on the subject, I have a few thoughts that I am working around in my head.
Co-teaching is between two teachers as a marriage covenant is between two [...]

Interesting slide show on Cognitively Guided Instruction.

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

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Internet use safety for students

Thursday, October 11th, 2007

I found two sources that look promising as resources to use with middle-high school students.
http://www.safeteens.com and http://www.staysafe.org/teens
If you know of more please add them to the discussion. This is an area that requires all of our attention NOW.
I shudder when I see what some students are doing on line. They [...]

A new research tool

Friday, May 25th, 2007

In reading Steve Dembo’s blog http://www.denblogs.com/digital_passports/2007/05/kartoo_map_out_.html  I found the Kartoo.com site.  It is interesting and provides yet another tool to help students navigate the ocean of information.  I always worry about the little storm clouds on the horizon when I send kids out on the WEB.  Do they have the skills they need?  Who knows [...]

Summarizing And… presentation

Sunday, April 8th, 2007

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How to Beat the Time Trap

Wednesday, March 7th, 2007

As the first day of school is looming right around the corner, I become aware of the crunch on my available time to do all the things I would like to do before the official starting bell.  Hence when I was cleaning out files of the last 30 years and came across a list of [...]

UnitedStreaming

Monday, November 20th, 2006

Fairview has been using UnitedStreaming an awesome resource for videos for the last two years.  Now that UnitedStreaming is adding components and additional resources we need to help each other find ways to effectively use this resource.  At our in-service we went through some basics.  Part of our group investigated some additional features such as [...]

On-the-Move #6

Monday, November 20th, 2006

Words-on-the-move #6
The strategy is Comparing word meaning as found in Intervention Strategies to Follow Informal Reading Inventory Assessment by JoAnne Schudt Caldwell and Lauren Leslie.
They stress the importance of helping students grow their vocabulary by keeping it grounded in what they are currently studying in context.   Understanding how things are alike is a basic way [...]

On-the-Move #6

Thursday, November 9th, 2006

podcast address.
http://podcasts.milwaukee.k12.wi.us
Go under the Fairview heading to find my podcasts.

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