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The How To's of Planning Lessons Differentiated by Learning Profile. Figure 10.1. Focus on Learning Profile Learning-Style Preferences Learning style refers to environmental or personal factors. Some students may learn best when they can move around, others need to sit still. Intelligence Preferences Intelligence preference refers to the sorts of brain-based predispositions we all have for learning. Culture-Influenced Preferences Culture affects how we learn, as well. The goal of the teacher is, therefore, not to suggest that individuals from a particular culture ought to learn in a particular way, but rather to come to understand the great range of learning preferences that will exist in any group of people and to create a classroom flexible enough to invite individuals to work in ways they find most productive.

Gender-Based Preferences Gender also influences how we learn. Combined Preferences Combinations of culture and gender will create unique constellations of learning preferences in individuals. Some Guidelines for Learning-Profile Differentiation 4-MAT. Ready-Ed Publications - Educational Books and Software. InstaGrok | Research Tool. Marking resources for e-asTTle writing / Teacher resources / Home - e-asTTle. Teachers can find many resources to assist them with marking e-asTTle writing. Please click on the links below. Marking rubric The revised writing tool assesses writing across five purposes. These are: describe, explain, recount, narrate, and persuade. The Describe purpose is divided into two: describe a moment in time, and describe a process.

A new generic marking rubric is used to assess writing across any of the five purposes. Download the generic rubric here. Writing prompts There are 20 prompts that cover the five writing purposes. Structure and Language notes Each prompt provides additional Structure and Language notes which define the demands of a particular writing purpose, available from within the tool after creating a test. Specific exemplars Each of the 20 writing prompts has its own annotated exemplars specific to that prompt. Generic exemplars The set of generic exemplars illustrates the use of the e-asTTle marking rubric to score writing across the writing prompts. Return to top. Education widgets for your site, blog, social network, and more! Education Place- Classroom Activities. TypingClub. Cool Tools for 21st Century Learners.

BuiLD YouR WiLD SeLF. I {Heart} Teaching. The bullying of teachers, advice for bullied and stressed teachers and lecturers, OFSTED and the failure of government education policy. "[The head teacher] dressed impeccably and had a radiant smile and spoke very professionally. It's horrible to say this, but if you can pull off those three simple things ... the bureaucrats will be dazzled and they will let you keep your job -- even if you belong in jail. " Velma Konwea, who now happily teaches grade school under a good principal in Hollywood. At around 20% (of over 10,000 cases), teachers, lecturers and employees in education are the largest group of callers to the UK National Workplace Bullying Advice Line.

Teachers are also proving to be the number one group of emailers via Bully OnLine - especially from UK, USA, Canada and Australia. The most common complaint by teachers (and others in the public sector) is that their trade union is refusing to support them in their case of bullying and stress - for more on this click here . This page is devoted to bullying in education - between adults, not children - which is proving to be the worst sector for this behaviour. News. QuestGarden.com. WebQuests - Mr. Cuevas' Classroom Website.

Take Me Out to the Ballgame This WebQuest splits students into groups and assigns each group a different aspect of baseball to find information for and form common baseball statistics. This is a great WebQuest because it shows students that math is applicable in many ways, including America's favorite pastime. The website requires students to put their information into graphs and tables, which is also very useful for math. Overall, the WebQuest seems very useful and insightful.

Pirate Treasure Solving Systems This WebQuest has students work in groups to create a treasure map for their buried treasure and give mathematical slues to find the hidden treasure.  The Shape in Our Lives This WebQuest allows students to find interesting pieces of geometry in real life while working in groups. Summer Vacation This Webquest requires students to plan a summer vacation trip for two. Using Integrals to Find Area and Volume: Calculus Three Brothers and the Magical Popsicle House Interactive Math.

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