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- Schoolwide's Literacy Summer I...
Holiday INN JFK
Sunday, July 5 at 8:30am - Full-Day Literacy Workshop Series
Adria Hotel Conference Center
Friday, May 1 at 9:00am
Recent trends in education have brought about the demise of some of the old ways of teaching. The method of skill and drill has become antiquated and even heretical in today's educational arena. Teaching vocabulary words by having students define them in a dictionary has been squashed by those w...
It's report card time again. I dislike report cards intensely. It is a passionate hate affair between report cards and me. It is the only thing I dislike about teaching and the only thing I didn't miss when I was a curriculum coordinator. Since returning to the classroom three yea...
Lesson Title: The Author’s Note in Personal Narratives Subject: Writing Workshop / Publishing Audience: 2–5 ...
Yetta Goodman on historical context and how kids learn best when they think more deeply. ...
I think that a lot of teachers are probably in what you might call a middle road {on education viewpoints}, but I do believe also that when you have a strong belief system you have strong views. For example, we know a lot about how kids learn. We know a lot about how kids read....
In my area, major school districts restrict class parties to three per year. Most of the classroom teachers I know feel that the “winter” party and the “end of the year” party are essential. That leaves one other American holiday available for celebration. Which one will it be? Hallow...
Lesson Title: Write What You Do Subject: Writing Workshop / Generating Ideas ...
There are two kinds of summer reading of course: the kind of reading a kid does in the summer and the assigned summer reading from school—a big distinction of course and a new problem. Can a school that really can’t enforce much homework or reading during the year enforce summer reading? Goo...
