Building on this previous blog entry by Mary Rudd I’d like to touch on the issue of how we might use the Common Core Standards and Project Based Learning to engage students. As this video shows people will do the previously unthinkable if the right buttons of engagement are pressed. The big question then is how […]
I recently found myself in a packed conference session full of school administrators trying to get the most up-to-date answers about the upcoming literacy component of the PARCC assessment that will be rocking the socks off our schools come 2014. It seems that everybody knows just enough to be really worried about the rigors of […]
I believe that a tell-tale sign of a change initiative that has merit is one that quickly takes teacher conversation to the student motivation question. As in, “What do we do about the students who aren’t motivated to read, write, or otherwise delve deeply into our content?” For me, such a question indicates that teachers […]
When I was an undergraduate at the University of Pennsylvania, there were several members of the faculty who were wildly popular for their lectures: Among them were Nicholas Riasanovsky in Russian history, Alfred Rieber in European history, Martin Seligman, then a rookie in psychology, now renowned for his work in learned optimism, and Stuart Samuels, […]
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A longstanding mindset of English Language Arts teachers is to describe their current unit or chunk of curriculum as “Teaching (fill in any title)”, as in, “I am teaching To Kill a Mockingbird this month.”
