admin on December 10th, 2008
Okay, so I am having a blast today. The administrative team is in the midst of our first round of focused classroom walk-throughs. We have created a structure and format that I find so easy, but I am quite afraid to say it too quickly as we still have to debrief next week about the process, gather the data and get feedback from teachers.
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Classroom Walk-Throughs
admin on December 10th, 2008
Human capabilities, unfortunately, begin to decay beyond a certain age. Good institutions, on the other hand, can — like vintage wine — get better with age. Sadly, most institutions in India tend to mimic human mortality rather than the growing goodness of ageing wine
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Restructuring the education system
admin on December 8th, 2008
Mrs McCulloch thankyou for teaching us all the chinese farewell and good luck at the new school. GOODBYE!!!
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Goodbye Mrs McCulloch
admin on December 8th, 2008
Cloud Computing: Why Your Head in the Clouds is a Good Thing December 8, 2008 by Learning Landscape By Dr. Judy Lombardi, Associate Professor of Secondary Education, California State University Northridge Picture a day when teachers and students no longer have to ask, “Mac or PC?” Envision all learners using any software application via the Internet, with no worries about platforms or compatibility. Imagine storing desktop files in a secure, online location, accessing them anywhere. All
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Cloud Computing: Why Your Head in the Clouds is a Good Thing
ISA on December 8th, 2008
Spend too much of your teaching time tracking test scores and not enough actually instructing students who need the extra help? It’s not an uncommon complaint among district administrators and teachers up against the No Child Left Behind phalanx of testing and reporting requirements
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Test and Track
admin on December 7th, 2008
How many times should a student rewrite a composition? Depends on who you ask. If you ask the student, she’ll emphatically reply, “Once!” Not only that, she wants you to love that paper, slap a gold star on it, and pronounce it stellar.
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Writing tip: Process vs. product
Blog for iplittle on December 7th, 2008
Learn a simple tool to help you think more creatively It has been proven you have lost 95% of the creativity you once had. Want it back? The fact is we are all born with enormous amounts of creativity, but over time the school systems and socialization beat it out of us.
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Random Creativity
admin on December 6th, 2008
About this interview: Peter Martin is an artist and writer who grew up in St. Helena, California.
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“The Baby Tank”: An Interview with St. Helena Artist & Writer Peter Martin
ISA on December 6th, 2008
I’ve recently received emails from teachers who have had pre-literate (coming from a culture that does not have a written language, or that has only very recently developed one) or illiterate (coming from a culture that does have a written language, but the student cannot read it) students recently join their classes. The teachers have asked me for suggestions for how they can work with these new arrivals effectively
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The Best Online Resources For Teachers of Pre-Literate ELL’s
ISA on December 6th, 2008
From MSNBC: A white social studies teacher attempted to enliven a seventh-grade discussion of slavery by binding the hands and feet of two black girls, prompting outrage from one girl’s mother and the local chapter of the NAACP. There are some details missing: Did the girls volunteer? Were they selected at random?
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Progressive instruction or racism?
