The school’s success suggests that perhaps certain instructional fundamentals—fundamentals that schools have devalued or forgotten—need to be rediscovered, updated, and reintroduced. And if that can be done correctly, traditional instruction delivered by the teachers already in classrooms may turn out to be the most powerful lever we have for improving school performance after all.
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The Writing Revolution - Peg Tyre - The Atlantic - 1 views
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It is all about balance. Some students need more help with understanding how to write. Others need less. I would not want writing to be reduced to a formula but we need to have ways to support student in their writing journey. It is hard to write well if you believe you cannot write because you lack success. The focus needs to be on what students need in the format that they need.
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So now the proverbial pendulum is threatening to swing back, back to the basics of writing instruction. Is there a way we can learn from the mistakes of our past over-reactions and consider the possibility that both the technical and creative aspects of writing can (and should) be taught? And that the qualities and skills involved in both can (and should) be taught explicitly and through immersion in the best examples of each genre.
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One strategy to use with ELLs is to provide them with sentence starters, similar to the ones the teachers at New Dorp are now using. The SIOP Model, a way to create lesson plans that encompasses strategies that support ELLs, benefits not only them but all students as well.
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Free Technology for Teachers: Free Downloads - 2 views
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Richard Byrne's blog with free resources and lesson plans for teaching with technology
What Should Children Read? - NYTimes.com - 1 views
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careful reading can advance great writing.
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Common Core dictates that by fourth grade, public school students devote half of their reading time in class to historical documents, scientific tracts, maps and other “informational texts” — like recipes and train schedules
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What schools really need isn’t more nonfiction but better nonfiction,
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Why K-12 schools are failing by not teaching SEARCH | The Thinking Stick - 3 views
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Interesting article about teaching students how to search on the web...with k-12 lesson plans for teaching search techniques
Lesson Plan | Writing Fiction Based on Real Science - NYTimes.com - 2 views
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A great way to infuse science classes with literacy and writing
Common Core State Standards Initiative | Mathematics | Introduction | Standards for Mat... - 0 views
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Mathematically proficient students can explain correspondences between equations, verbal descriptions, tables, and graphs or draw diagrams of important features and relationships, graph data, and search for regularity or trends
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the ability to contextualize, to pause as needed during the manipulation process in order to probe into the referents for the symbols involved. Quantitative reasoning entails habits of creating a coherent representation of the problem at hand; considering the units involved; attending to the meaning of quantities, not just how to compute them; and knowing and flexibly using different properties of operations and objects.
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They justify their conclusions, communicate them to others, and respond to the arguments of others.
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Plenty of opportunities in these math standards for reflection, publication, revision, and collaboration.
Teaching Technology to Teachers: I Used to Think... but Now I Think... - EdTech Researc... - 4 views
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workshops should begin and end by having people think and write about their learning goals. Workshops and series should be named after learning goals rather than tools.
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involves introducing tools not by the unconscionably boring "click-along-with-the-presenter" method, but by giving participants a logical series of steps to perform and having them figure out how to do them through play, exploration, peer and facilitator support.
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professional development plans ultimately need to build towards creating environments where teachers are coaching, guiding, supporting and inspiring one another.
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Common Core State Standards Initiative | English Language Arts Standards | Anchor Stand... - 3 views
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These three standards hit all four of our tech PD focus areas: reflection, collaboration, publication, and revision.
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6. Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and to interact and collaborate with others.
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5. Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach.
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