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The Big Read | To Kill a Mockingbird - 0 views

www.neabigread.org/...teachersguide02.php

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  • Tom McHale on 20 Oct 09
     
    This site contains a teacher's guide, reader's guide, and an audio discussion (featuring Horton Foote and Sandra Day O'Connor). It's from the National Endowment for the Arts
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To Kill a Mockingbird - 0 views

www.universalteacher.org.uk/...mockingbird.htm

ToKillAMockingbird TKAM teaching

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  • Tom McHale on 19 Oct 09
     
    This guide is written for teachers and students who are studying Harper Lee's novel To Kill a Mockingbird. The guide is written specifically for students in the UK, but I hope it may be helpful to users from other parts of the world. To Kill a Mockingbird is a set text for GCSE exams in English literature. It may also be studied for teacher-assessed coursework in English in Key Stages 3 and 4 (GCSE reading
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creativewritingprompts.com

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  • Tom McHale on 19 Oct 09
     
    Use the creative writing prompts and creative writing ideas to create stories, poems and other creative pieces from your imagination. The writing prompts can even help you come up with creative content for blogs and blog stories
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Diigo in Education - 0 views

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diigo education

shared by Tom McHale on 01 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Diigo
  • Diigo
  • Diigo is an effective tool for teaching as well. Diigo's features allow teachers to highlight critical features within text and images and write comments directly on the web pages, to collect and organize series of web pages and web sites into coherent and thematic sets, and to facilitate online conversations within the context of the materials themselves.  Diigo also allows teachers to collaborate and share resources among themselves.
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  • The 21st century calls for knowledge workers who can effectively utilize the vast array of information that resides on the internet and who are capable of processing the information collaboratively with others
  • In the education setting, we all know that project-based learning is an effective way to teach students and cultivate their skills of finding, organizing, synthesizing, and presenting information, as well as the social skills of working in groups, all of which are necessary in the knowledge-based economy. Among the web 2.0 technologies, Diigo is a great tool for this kind of exploratory and collaborative learning.
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Ten Steps to Better Student Engagement | Edutopia - 0 views

www.edutopia.org/t-learning-teaching-strategies

studentengagement

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  • Create an Emotionally Safe Classroom
  • Create an Intellectually Safe Classroom
  • Begin every activity with a task that 95 percent of the class can do without your help.
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  • Cultivate Your Engagement Meter
  • Master teachers create an active-learning environment in which students are on task in their thinking and speaking or are collaboratively working close to 100 percent of the time.
  • Every day, include some questions you require every student to answer. Find a question you know everyone can answer simply, and have the class respond all at once.
  • Practice Journal or Blog Writing to Communicate with Students
  • Create a Culture of Explanation Instead of a Culture of the Right Answer
  • Use Questioning Strategies That Make All Students Think and Answer
  • Japanese teachers highly value the last five minutes of class as a time for summarizing, sharing, and reflecting.
  • You can ask students to put a finger up when they're ready to answer, and once they all do, ask them to whisper the answer at the count of three
  • Great projects incorporate authentic tasks that will help students in their lives, jobs, or relationships. Engage students by developing an inventory of big ideas to help you make the connections between your assignments and important life skills, expertise, high-quality work, and craftsmanship. The Partnership for 21st Century Skills provides a good starter list.
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The Future of Reading - 'Reading Workshop' Approach Lets Students Pick the Books - Seri... - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...30reading.html

shared by Tom McHale on 01 Sep 09 - Cached
  • The approach Ms. McNeill uses, in which students choose their own books, discuss them individually with their teacher and one another, and keep detailed journals about their reading, is part of a movement to revolutionize the way literature is taught in America’s schools. While there is no clear consensus among English teachers, variations on the approach, known as reading workshop, are catching on.
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Atticus Finch still a role model in the South | montgomeryadvertiser.com | Montgomery A... - 2 views

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ToKill a Mockingbird Gladwell racism

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  • Tom McHale on 01 Sep 09
     
    A response to Gladwell's New Yorker article.
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