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Online Education Blog – LetGoLearn.comFriday, February 15, 2008Resolution for the Year of the RatLet us hold on to our promises to kids – for California, to really make this the “Year of Education,” for the U.K. to encourage others to make this the “National Year of Reading” – and stop for a moment and make a resolution to see education as something beyond the books, classroom lessons, and homework assignments – to see the face of real children whose lives affect us and are affected by us. Let’s make this year, perhaps this era, one for the prosperity of our children and youth.Posted by Anne-Evan Williams at 08:35 PM. Filed under: Instruction • Administrators • Teachers • Home School • Special Education • Experts • Paolo Martin, Reading Specialist • Response to Intervention: What You Need to KnowWhatever your political leanings may be, you can probably see the argument that NCLB has in many ways been good for low-achieving students. Titles 1 & 3, among others, have channeled funds directly toward students who need help, whether during the day or after school. An outgrowth of the focus on low-achieving kids has been a movement to systematize and structure the types of interventions schools offer for such students. This process has been codified in what is termed "Response to Intervention," or RtI.Posted by Anne-Evan Williams at 03:01 PM. Filed under: Reading • Assessments • Instruction • Administrators • Teachers • Special Education • Experts • Richard D. McCallum, Ph.D. • Wednesday, February 13, 2008Alternate Materials: Engaging the Reluctant ReaderWhen it comes down to it, whether our kids are reading "the classics" or Sports Illustrated for Kids shouldn't be our greatest concern. Really, the question is whether they are reading at all. And if we can find materials to engage them, they will!Posted by Anne-Evan Williams at 08:32 PM. Filed under: Reading • Instruction • Administrators • Teachers • Home School • Special Education • Monday, February 04, 2008Freedom WritersAs I see it, when kids truly want to learn something - especially from curricula that encourage them to deal with real life issues like race and violence, while helping them develop strong enough literacy skills to make it to college - we do them more of a disservice by not allowing them to explore those materials.Posted by Anne-Evan Williams at 12:57 PM. Filed under: Reading • Instruction • Administrators • Teachers • Home School • Special Education • Experts • Paolo Martin, Reading Specialist • Friday, January 25, 2008Should Reading Be So Hard?With the drudgery of some reading programs which employ rote tasks that aren't applicable to authentic and meaningful textual experiences, I fear that we make reading much harder for kids than it should be...Posted by Anne-Evan Williams at 10:25 AM. Filed under: Reading • Instruction • Administrators • Teachers • Home School • Special Education • Experts • Paolo Martin, Reading Specialist • (0) Comments • (0) Trackbacks • Permalink Tuesday, January 08, 2008It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s a….Reading Teacher?!According to a New York Times article, "Superman Finds New Fans Among Reading Instructors," the Maryland State Department of Education is planning on expanding a literacy program which employs comic books as part of its curriculum after seeing positive results in a pilot program...Posted by Anne-Evan Williams at 09:21 AM. Filed under: Reading • Instruction • Teachers • Home School • Experts • Paolo Martin, Reading Specialist • (2) Comments • (0) Trackbacks • Permalink Wednesday, December 26, 2007Don’t Look a Gift-Horse in the Mouth! The Dilemma of the ‘Gifted.When there isn't an attempt to explore and capitalize on what makes children unique, "gifted" or otherwise, all children are left behind.Posted by Anne-Evan Williams at 09:50 AM. Filed under: Instruction • Administrators • Teachers • Special Education • Experts • Paolo Martin, Reading Specialist • (1) Comments • (0) Trackbacks • Permalink Thursday, December 13, 2007Calculators in the ClassroomSince the invention of the calculator forty years ago, educators have debated the value of such tools in the classroom.Posted by Anne-Evan Williams at 12:55 PM. Filed under: Math • Instruction • Administrators • Teachers • Home School • Special Education • (1) Comments • (0) Trackbacks • Permalink Thursday, December 06, 2007Building our Children’s BrainsCarol S. Dweck identifies two different mindsets in students: the fixed mindset, which believes that success stems from ability, and the growth mindset, which believes success comes from growth. Dweck's research has shown that students who are spoken to with a growth mindset are the students for whom growth is more likely, and success greater.Posted by Anne-Evan Williams at 02:33 PM. Filed under: Reading • Math • Instruction • Administrators • Teachers • Home School • Special Education • (0) Comments • (0) Trackbacks • Permalink Tuesday, December 04, 2007Are Influential Teachers Becoming Extinct?According to figures released by the United Federation of Teachers in New York City, teacher resignations have increased steadily since 2001.Posted by Anne-Evan Williams at 02:25 PM. Filed under: Instruction • Administrators • Teachers • Special Education • Experts • Paolo Martin, Reading Specialist • (2) Comments • (0) Trackbacks • Permalink
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