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Online Education Blog – LetGoLearn.comFriday, March 14, 2008The End of Print as We Know It?As far as reading goes, while I still read books, I now spend copious amounts of time reading material on the Internet - much more than I do reading from the pages of reference books or magazines. It's amazing to me that in fewer than a dozen years of my life, my experience of text has changed so drastically that now much of it happens electronically.Posted by Anne-Evan Williams at 10:16 AM. Filed under: Reading • Administrators • Teachers • Home School • Special Education • Experts • Paolo Martin, Reading Specialist • Friday, March 07, 2008Let’s Go Learn Co-Founder Featured in District Administration ArticleDistrict Administration has released an article highlighting the need for diagnostic assessment in the classroom. Featured in their article is Dr. Richard McCallum, co-founder of Let's Go Learn.Posted by Anne-Evan Williams at 02:24 PM. Filed under: Reading • Math • Assessments • Administrators • Teachers • Home School • Experts • Richard D. McCallum, Ph.D. • Friday, February 15, 2008Response 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 22, 2008Speaking Out Against Graduation ExamsEducators and school board members alike are speaking out against the proposed graduation exam requirements in Pennsylvania. With the number of benchmark assessments on the rise across the country, there are many who feel that assessments are the only way to hold both teachers and students accountable for their learning. But in Pennsylvania, they disagree.Posted by Anne-Evan Williams at 01:11 PM. Filed under: Reading • Math • Assessments • Administrators • Teachers • Special Education • (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 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 Thursday, November 29, 2007Another Vote against Oral Reading MeasuresTeachers have long used oral reading measures as a standard of reading assessment. Meanwhile, opponents have launched a variety of criticisms, pointing to the social stigma associated with reading out loud and claiming too great a focus on "sounding right." But new research from the University of Maryland presents fresh, concrete data against oral reading measures and in favor of silent reading comprehension in student assessment.Posted by Anne-Evan Williams at 07:26 PM. Filed under: Reading • Assessments • Administrators • Teachers • Special Education • (0) Comments • (0) Trackbacks • Permalink
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