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Category Archives: Thinking About Teaching
Choice in Student Writing
When I was in high school taking a typing class (yes, I really am that old), my friends and I who were very good typists had a lot of free time during class. We started writing stories together. We’d type … Continue reading
An Ideal Learner’s Workshop
I love workshop style teaching, probably because it empowers children, and teachers, to learn in ways that best suit them. It is student-centered, can be self-directed, and is easy, easy, easy, to differentiate to meet the needs of everyone. A … Continue reading
Education in Rural Pakistan
Check out these schools in rural Pakistan–it’s very interesting to see what’s going on out there! Thanks to Saadia, at The Human Lens for the information! DIL schools in Pakistan from Hemal on Vimeo.
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13 Characteristics of Integrated Instruction
1. Reading: students read (and write) in order to find out new information which they share with their peers. 2. Writing: students learn a style of writing related to the theme and create and publish a final product in that … Continue reading
School Should be Fun…Learning is Fun!
A father once said to me at a parent-teacher conference, “I don’t send my son to school to have fun. I send him to learn.” I responded with, “I wonder how much he will actually be learning if he isn’t … Continue reading
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School Should be Fun…Time on Task
Fun things are engaging. Engagement brings extended time-on-task. Extended time-on-task leads to better test scores. Although we may whine and complain about standardized tests, in many ways rightly so, don’t we all want our students to score very well? Isn’t … Continue reading
Deeply Believing
I read an interesting post today by Franki over at A Year of Reading . She was talking about what she’s learned as a teacher/librarian by watching her daughter, Ana, become a blogger. Reflecting on the writing growth she has … Continue reading
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