Posted in assessment, learning, school reform, social studies, students, teaching on June 12, 2008 | 4 Comments »
The valedictorian is not the smartest kid in school, she’s just the one who’s the best at playing the game of school.
I had the chance to work with a crowd of teachers together with Allison Zmuda earlier this week and I was fascinated by her opening address to the group. She talked about the importance [...]
Posted in history, learning, lesson plans, school reform, social studies, teaching on June 11, 2008 | No Comments »
Just discovered a wonderful site that ALL K-12 teachers who teach history need to know about. The National History Education Clearinghouse is a comprehensive site that focuses on helping history teachers do their jobs better.
The clearinghouse title is very appropriate because the site provides a wide range of professional growth resources. This is the biggest [...]
Posted in change, learning, pbl, research, school reform on May 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Still in Colby, America as part of the iConnect UnConference. We’ve been having some great conversation about how we as educators can do our jobs better. The basic question has been - “What should schools look like and how can we work to make that vision happen?”
As the discussion starter this morning, we watched Sir [...]
Posted in Google Earth, Google Maps, cool, geography, google, history, school reform, technology integration on May 29, 2008 | No Comments »
Been gone a while! The end of school was upon me and I was a bit overwhelmed.
Spending the next few days in Colby and Haysville, Kansas talking with a small group of hard-thinking teachers at the iConnect Conference. It’s a different way of doing a conference and so far, lots of fun. It’s billed as [...]
Posted in learning, school reform, teaching on April 8, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Does anyone have it tougher than elementary teachers?
Spent part of yesterday morning Skyping into my wife’s fourth grade classroom. There was some conversation but mostly just eavesdropping on her instruction and interaction with the kids. (Is there a word for eavesdropping when you’re not even in the room!?)
Once more got a taste of what thousands [...]
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