Group items tagged

Blogging and tweeting save time. Simply in writing down what you are doing and thinking, you are improving your work through self reflection. Sharing it with the world leverages this incredibly powerful hive mind that takes crappy lesson plans and ideas and spins them into pure gold often in less time than it takes to google up a halfway passable idea yourself.

We talk a lot in schools about wishing we were somehow more supported by our communities, but schools also need to be more encouraging of that relationship. To address this, Zolt envisioned, and made real, In2Books, ePals’ flagship literacy program. In a nutshell, In2Books selects a carefully screened volunteer, let’s say a business exec from AOL, and pairs that professional with a student to discuss books through letter writing that is teacher-guided and teacher-approved. It’s as simple as that. It’s book buddies brought into the 21st Century.

What do we want each student to learn? How will we know when each student has learned it? How will we respond when a student experiences difficulty in learning?