"Adolescents entering the adult world in the 21st century will read and write more than at any other time in human history. They will need advanced levels of literacy to perform their jobs, run their households, act as citizens, and conduct their personal lives."
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Digital Writing, Digital Teaching - Integrating New Literacies into the Teach... - 1 views
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Essential reading for anyone teaching students to write today.
25 Free Sites to Teach Writing - The Writing Teacher - Tips, Techniques, and ... - 0 views
Technology Literacy & GIS Mapping - 0 views
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I think this has some great implications for teaching geography. I know we don't expressly teach geography in Connetions but we could let them play with this stuff as a means to represent some other data.
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I think this has some great implications for teaching geography.
Annals of Education: Most Likely to Succeed: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker - 0 views
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Great piece from Gladwell on relating teaching to NFL Quarterbacks.
Whole Brain Teaching, LLC - Milestones - 0 views
video power teaching - Google Search - 0 views
teachingwithted / Teaching Children About Food - 1 views
How Important is Teaching Literacy in All Content Areas? | Edutopia - 0 views
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Let's not forget, also, about the "why?"
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Content is what we teach, but there is also the how, and this is where literacy instruction comes in.
Body Ritual among the Nacirema - Wikisource - 0 views
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I used this one when I taught world history/current events to teach perspective and bias.
Teaching Effectiveness Program - 0 views
TLN Teacher Voices: Common Creativity: 21st Century Teaching and Learning (Part 1) - 0 views
What to learn: 'core knowledge' or '21st-century skills'? - USATODAY.com - 0 views
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Do kids learn to think by reading great literature, doing difficult math and learning history, philosophy and science? Or can they tackle those subjects on their own if schools simply teach them to problem-solve, communicate, use technology and think creatively?
What Percent? Tell The World What You Think! - 0 views
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This has some potential for teaching students how to respond to public opinion polls.
7 Bad Writing Habits You Learned in School | Copyblogger - 6 views
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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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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!
15 Free Guides That Really Teach You USEFUL Stuff - 4 views
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Think of this as your personal help desk for all of the things you always wanted to do with your laptop.
What makes a great teacher? - Practical Theory - 1 views
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A wonderful post from 2003 by Chris Lehmann.
Using Google Docs in the classroom: S... - 0 views
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In case you needed ideas