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Beth Bensen-Barber

Seven Principles of Good Teaching Practice - 0 views

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education good principles teaching practices

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    • Beth Bensen-Barber
      Beth Bensen-Barber on 12 Oct 11
       
      Seems like good practices to engage students and hold their attention per Brain Rules chapter 4.
Dionne Wesley

CollegeWriting.info--A Free, Full-Text Writing and Composition Textbook, Handbook, Edit... - 1 views

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Learning to Write for all areas

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      Dionne Wesley on 12 Oct 11
       
      This site is cool. A student can find out how most writing techniques are created and they have examples. The site is set up for the visual learner in templates. The templates allow the student to stay organized and it breaks down the process to product..
  • Section A. Starting To Write Section B. Arguing   Section C. Responding to Readings Section D. Online Help Grammar Handbook \                                             \                                          /                                           /           E.-G.-Speak-Read-Think _  Welcome!        Table of Contents        Grammar        Samples _  Sections H.-I. Revise Edit College Writing High School Writers     Teachers     Theory     Free Use     http://www.tc.umn.
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  •    Welcome to CollegeWriting.Info!  This Web book is an online, full-length college, AP, and basic writing textbook and professional resource--the most complete and practical writing textbook on the free Web.                     Are you a student?  CollegeWriting.Info is easy to read and highly practical, with more information than other free college writing textbooks on the Web.  It is a community with many houses, each with different rooms: CollegeWriting.Info has dozens of chapters on academic, professional, literary, and creative writing, all containing a variety of helpful descriptions and examples.  Most chapters offer multiple focuses for both beginning and advanced writers, and for classroom, personal, or professional use.  Navigation is simple, with both visual and textual links to other pages and sites, to sample papers, and to related readings.  Why is this book good?  Here is a 4:45-min. video showing you why having a highly practical (and free) guide to real writing is important in our world: "A Vision of Students Today": www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o.                            Are you an instructor?  CollegeWriting.Info is a genre- and community-oriented textbook with an emphasis on learning-centered, writing-intensive instruction useful in most beginning and some advanced undergraduate college courses in composition, writing across the curriculum, literature, speech, and writing in other disciplines.  A section for basic writers is included, too.  CollegeWriting.Info also can help you and your students easily explore other online writing resources, with links to some of the Web's finest sites containing usage and mechanics, argumentative and other nonfiction essays, and full-text literary classics.  In addition, CollegeWriting.Info provides instructor-oriented essays on--and links to--theory and pedagogy, listings of academic writing organizations and resources, and many other helpful professional links.  For more about the author and the development of this Web textbook, see "About the Authors."  For more about the theory behind this textbook, see "Teaching Strategic Experience."                 
  • Dionne Wesley on 12 Oct 11
     
    A composition site for college students
Jamie LaCava-Owen

Classroom Management - 0 views

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  • 3. Establishing Rules. Establish a set of classroom rules to guide the behavior of students at once. Discuss the rationale of these rules with the students to ensure they understand and see the need for each rule. Keep the list of rules short. The rules most often involve paying attention, respect for others, excessive noise, securing materials and completion of homework assignments.
    • Jamie LaCava-Owen
      Jamie LaCava-Owen on 12 Oct 11
       
      As we learned in Brain Rules, it is also important to repeat the rules many times, especially for younger students.  
  • 5. Learning Names. Devise a seating arrangement whereby students' names are quickly learned. Calling a student by his or her name early in the year gives the student an increased sense of well being. It also gives a teacher greater control of situations. "JOHN, stop talking and finish your work" is more effective than "Let us stop talking and finish our work".
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    • Jamie LaCava-Owen
      Jamie LaCava-Owen on 12 Oct 11
       
      This technique helps us as teachers remember students names.  It deals with brain rule 6, where we need to remember to repeat the same behaviors so that we are able to engrain names in our memories.  
  • 4. Overplaning Lessons. "Overplan" the lessons for the first week or two. It is important for the teacher to impress on the students from the outset that he or she is organized and confident of their ability to get through the syllabus.
    • Jamie LaCava-Owen
      Jamie LaCava-Owen on 12 Oct 11
       
      Overplanning is necessary for brain rule 4, attention.  If students are left to their own devices, they quickly lose attention and will start doing what they want to do.  It important to over plan so that students remain engaged throughout the class period.
    • Jamie LaCava-Owen
      Jamie LaCava-Owen on 12 Oct 11
       
      This also helps students remember what is taught to them, if they are paying attention!!
  • Jamie LaCava-Owen on 12 Oct 11
     
    This website focuses on the very essential teching practice of classroom management.  This is specifically geared towards elementary- high school classrooms, where structure is necessary all of the time.  i chose this because it relates to Brain Rules 5 and 6.  Repetition is EXTREMELY important for elementary, middle, and high school students when it comes to teacher expectations and policies.  This gives good advice to teachers to help them manage their classrooms.  
Betsy Long

HowStuffWorks "How Web 2.0 Works" - 0 views

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ENGL665 web2.0 hype oreilly

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  • Betsy Long on 29 Sep 11
     
    This site references O'reilly a lot, as he's apparently the authority on all things Web 2.0. There are many competing definitions for Web 2.0. Some say it's a set of practices and philosophies that help users have a deep, rich web experience. Others think it's a new collection of technology that increases accessibility for everyone. Still others think it's all hype and it means nothing...
aleeshsireese

Web 2.0 Definition and Tagging - 2 views

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Web 2.0 ENGL 665

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  • web 2.0...is about making the Internet useful for computers.
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      aleeshsireese on 05 Oct 11
       
      I think these definitions relate to reading and writing because we read and write for different purposes. The definition of web 2.0 I selected mirrors the same intent. Web 2.0 tools are platforms for various purposes. I think if we can fin the appropriate web 2.0 school for out reading or writing purpose we can make these practices natural. From all my research on web 2.0 tools a reoccurring purpose was business.
  • The Web as Platform", because I can then fill in the blanks depending on who I'm talking to. For corporate people, the Web is a platform for business. For marketers, the Web is a platform for communications. For journalists, the Web is a platform for new media. For geeks, the Web is a platform for software development. And so on.
Betsy Long

How do I use Repetition? - 0 views

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repetition brainrules chapter6

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      Betsy Long on 12 Oct 11
       
      Most of the events that predict whether something learned will also be remembered occur in the first few seconds of learning. The more elaborately we encode a memory during its initial moments, the stronger it will be.
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      Betsy Long on 12 Oct 11
       
      (Chapter 5)
  • Learners who used a repetition tactic remembered 50% more content after one week (7 days) than did those learners who did not recite.
  • This is a practice activity. Use it with students who are familiar with the lesson content. Students recall facts, labels, lists, rules, or procedures by stating the correct question that corresponds to the answer provided by the narrator while participating in a game to make the lesson more interesting. This activity should be used after the students are familiar with the lesson content.
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    • Betsy Long
      Betsy Long on 12 Oct 11
       
      Brain Rule #4: People don't pay attention to boring things! If you want your class to remember to repeat, and repeat to remember, play a game with them! Do something to hold their attention.
    • Betsy Long
      Betsy Long on 12 Oct 11
       
      Brain Rule #4: People don't pay attention to boring things! If you want your class to remember to repeat, and repeat to remember, play a game with them! Do something to hold their attention.
    • Betsy Long
      Betsy Long on 12 Oct 11
       
      This goes along with the idea of CH 6-- We must remember to repeat! The fact that we know repetition is a good learning tool is useless if we don't actually remember to do it. Having a repetition tactic helps out with that goal.
    • Betsy Long
      Betsy Long on 12 Oct 11
       
      This goes along with the idea of CH 6-- We must remember to repeat! The fact that we know repetition is a good learning tool is useless if we don't actually remember to do it. Having a repetition tactic helps out with that goal.
  • Repetition involves repeating the information to be recalled. Repetition can be done verbally, in writing, or mentally. It has been documented that the most effective method of Repetition is verbal repetition because it involves both auditory and vocal senses.
  • Betsy Long on 12 Oct 11
     
    Ch 5 of Brain Rules says you must repeat to remember. This site promotes that, even giving examples of class activities that involve repetition
Carrie Emerson

Memory - 0 views

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memory ENGL665

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  • Atkinson and Shiffrin (1968)
    • Carrie Emerson
      Carrie Emerson on 12 Oct 11
       
      Bit old, but perhaps nothing better has come out...? Thoughts?
  • holds material for about 15-30 seconds, although this can be expanded by practice. This is much shorter than most of us think—a lot of people seem to think that it lasts for ten minutes or so. You can see, however, how disabling damage to the STM is, as in the case of dementia
  • Carrie Emerson on 12 Oct 11
     
    I think that some of the sources are outdated, but it is a nice connection to the short term/long term debate...
Jamie LaCava-Owen

Seven Principles of Good Teaching Practice - 0 views

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      Jamie LaCava-Owen on 12 Oct 11
       
      We see here that the use of technology is vital to teacher student bond.
  • and for the bright and well motivated. Expecting students to perform well becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. WebCT Tip: Provide students examples of "A"-quality work. Release statistics along with grades, so that students can see how they are performing as compared to the rest of the class (stats can give the mean grade and/or the frequencies). Use the "Selective Release" feature to release course info only as students achieve a certain level of success on a test.
    • Jamie LaCava-Owen
      Jamie LaCava-Owen on 12 Oct 11
       
      I find that teacher modeling is one of the most important parts of teaching English.  As a 6th grade teacher, you have to teach students how to think about things so that they will be more effective and critical thinkers in the future.
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  • WebCT Tip: Stick to a template for course page design *but* vary the types of excercises and assignments.
    • Jamie LaCava-Owen
      Jamie LaCava-Owen on 12 Oct 11
       
      This is very important, as we have learned through our articles.  Technology allows our students to look at things in different ways and learn in a way that is best for them.  
  • WebCT Tip: Use the Discussion Board, Mail, Chat & Whiteboard to interact with your students.
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