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11 Alternatives to "Round Robin" (and "Popcorn") Reading | Edutopia - 0 views

  • Why all the harshitude? Because Round Robin Reading . . . Stigmatizes poor readers. Imagine the terror that English-language learners and struggling readers face when made to read in front of an entire class. Weakens comprehension. Listening to a peer orally read too slowly, too fast, or too haltingly weakens learners' comprehension -- a problem exacerbated by turn-taking interruptions. (PDF, 177KB) Sabotages fluency and pronunciation. Struggling readers model poor fluency skills and pronunciation. When instructors correct errors, fluency is further compromised.
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    Round Robin reading not a good strategy for ell learners or reluctant readers.
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Steve Barkley » Blog Archive » Creating the Schools We Need: Teachers and Pri... - 0 views

  • Teaching isn’t about implementing the decisions made by someone else
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"Fitting In" PBL | Edutopia - 0 views

  • The true focus of PBL is encouraging students to engage in inquiry, explore real-world contexts, and share their learning with others
  • "If you assign a project and get back 30 of the exact same thing, that's not a project, that's a recipe."
  • We assign kids things because we want them to get through the curriculum, but what we really want is for them to become innovative thinkers."
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