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ReadWriteThink: Grades 6 to 8 Activities: Learning Beyond the Classroom - 0 views

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    ReadWriteThink has some outstanding resources for using writing to establish the thinking process
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Landmarks Class Blogmeister - 0 views

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    Classroom specific blogs that are password protected. Great tool for those who want to be a part of it.
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Profile Publisher - ReadWriteThink - 1 views

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    If you are looking for your students to design a Facebook page for a literary or historic character, this is a great template.
Patrick Higgins

Peace Corps | Coverdell World Wise Schools - 2 views

  • Teachers, home-schoolers, service-learning providers—find rich educational opportunities and cross-cultural lessons, stories, activities, videos, and much more.
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    Great opportunity to connect 
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    If you are looking to bring speakers to your classroom, the Peace Corps, as part of their responsibilities, offer educational outreach to schools. You can contact them through this website to set something up.
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    Thanks Pat, this will work well for our Change the World Unit!
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Hodgsonwriting - 0 views

  • The act of writing is an important way for students to learn by processing their ideas into coherent and organized form;Writing should be done across various curriculum areas and not be taught in isolation;Students should write for various audiences; At times, they may write just for themselves, for the classroom or, sometimes, for the world;Technology can be a useful tool for composing various forms of writing and media, including audio podcasts and video;Writing should be authentic and allow students to make connections between school and the world outside of school;Artistic elements and the concept of design play a role in the way that young people compose writing and other media;Reading quality books and stories of various genres provide an insight into the writing process and allow students to reflect, connect and utilize critical thinking skills;All students can succeed and improve as writers and readers and composers of multimedia.
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      I love these! Regardless of whether or not you feel that you will stick to them, I think it's good to have a set of guiding principles, and have them be publicly viewable, so that your beliefs are clearly stated.
Patrick Higgins

How to Keep Kids Engaged in Class | Edutopia - 0 views

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    Many of you already do some of these, but still they will help you get your kids from passive to active.
Patrick Higgins

Welcome! | Teachers Connecting - 0 views

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    Great resource to find partner classrooms
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    another directory for teachers to use to connect with others who are seeking cooperation.
Patrick Higgins

PBS Teachers | Activity Packs - 2 views

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    These are fantastic for teachers trying to bridge the gap between subject areas.
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    These are great for trying to figure out how to pull various subject areas into your classroom.
Patrick Higgins

7 Bad Writing Habits You Learned in School | Copyblogger - 6 views

  • Go around citing the sources of all of your ideas and people will start avoiding you, because it’s boring as hell
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    What do you think of this?
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    Pat - this is such a true article - but can it fit anywhere in our classrooms? As an avid reader I have to admit that some of the BEST stuff I've read is just from the heart of an author. I like this - how can I use without making people angry ?? :)
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    Danielle, That's precisely the question I want everyone thinking about. We truly focus so much of our energies on getting the format down and getting the "i's" dotted and "t's" crossed, and for many of the students we teach, that is completely necessary; however, as we begin to look at the next phase of what we'd like to do in the district which includes more than just being "proficient" on some state test, can we blend some of the thinking in this post into what we are doing. And as for making people angry, my advice is that you don't get the results you really want without making a few people angry along the way. Not that you try to, but when you know that what you are doing will make your students better, you just go with it.
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    Pat - I'd love to share this post with the kids or incorporate parts of it. I have to say that the best writing that the kids have done is usually the writing they do when we're in class and they just write. One of the hardest parts of teaching English is having to read 130 well constructed essays that follow the rubric but are so dry and boring that I have to restrain myself from stabbing my eyes out with my pen. It all goes back to the fact that in our H.S. the kids can write a great 5 paragraph essay or write persuasively but they have NO VOICE and I feel that the stress on structure and grammar could be why they have no voice. Interesting - we should discuss this a bit at our next Connections meeting!
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