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Online Education Blog – LetGoLearn.comThursday, October 25, 2007Separate the Chaff from the … What? – The Irony of Reading Research"Scientifically-based reading research" (SBRR) is a term that has been widely used since the passage of NCLB and the Reading First Act, and the publication of the National Reading Panel's five essential elements of reading instruction in their report "Teaching Children to Read." Unfortunately, SBRR today, as informative and unbiased as it sounds, is not used by the powers that be to truly tease out the very complex nature of reading and learning to read.Posted by Anne-Evan Williams at 03:32 PM. Filed under: Reading • Assessments • Instruction • Administrators • Teachers • Home School • Special Education • Experts • Paolo Martin, Reading Specialist • (0) Comments • (0) Trackbacks • Permalink Tuesday, October 23, 2007Are Students Inheriting a Fear of Math?Math anxiety is a common problem. It's a large part of the reason students fail to take important upper-level math courses. But maybe talking to our students about their math fears isn't all we need to be doing. Maybe some of that fear is inherited, passed down from parents with their own math anxieties. Maybe it's time for the schools to address the math anxieties of the parents as well.Posted by Anne-Evan Williams at 11:37 AM. Filed under: Math • Instruction • Administrators • Teachers • Home School • Special Education • (0) Comments • (0) Trackbacks • Permalink Tuesday, October 16, 2007Who’s Your Village?Like my nieces and nephews, many kids in the U.S. are fortunate enough to have "a village" to help raise them - like in the African proverb. But why does it seem so difficult for teachers who are responsible for 15 to 35 kids to get help from their local communities?Posted by Anne-Evan Williams at 08:33 AM. Filed under: Instruction • Administrators • Teachers • Special Education • Experts • Paolo Martin, Reading Specialist • (0) Comments • (0) Trackbacks • Permalink Thursday, October 11, 2007D for Missing AssignmentsThe National Panel for Assessment and Educational Progress, which bills itself as the nation's "report card," recently released the results of its periodic assessment of a sampling of children's reading and math skills around the nation. According to the report card, children seem to be doing significantly better in math and moderately better in reading. However, the report card also shows that the achievement gaps between white children and their Black and Hispanic counterparts have changed very little.Posted by Anne-Evan Williams at 02:45 PM. Filed under: Reading • Math • Assessments • Instruction • Special Education • Experts • Paolo Martin, Reading Specialist • (0) Comments • (0) Trackbacks • Permalink Tuesday, October 02, 2007Good Educational Technology: What Does That Mean?Hardware, software, professional development. All make up what we refer to as educational technology. But is one component more important than another? Is one more often ignored? What does it mean for schools to have "good educational technology"?Posted by Anne-Evan Williams at 03:47 PM. Filed under: Educational Technology • Administrators • Teachers • Page 1 of 1 pages
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