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How can I assure that students in my classroom feel this way? Agreed, this takes effort. Yet, in my experience, a little effort along the way, saves great effort in the end. It is important to note that I do not make any assignments due the next class day.
Poetry 180 - Home Page
Welcome to Poetry 180. Poetry can and should be an important part of our daily lives. Poems can inspire and make us think about what it means to be a member of the human race.Since 2003, StoryCorps has collected and archived more than 40,000 interviews from nearly 80,000 participants. Each conversation is recorded on a free CD to share, and is preserved at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. StoryCorps is one of the largest oral history projects of its kind, and millions listen to our broadcasts on our Listen page and on public radio.
StoryCorps
Storyline I: An Introduction & Storyline Revisited Are you ready to learn what makes the Storyline Method so successful in the classroom? The Storyline I: An Introduction course is for K-12 teachers who wish to learn how to integrate curriculum using the Storyline method. Participants will experience a Storyline unit both as a student in the process, as well as observer of the teaching method. Explore how and why the Storyline method motivates students to learn as they become their own ‘meaning makers.’ Would you like to revisit the method and still earn Portland State credit?
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This is the introduction to Bloom's Digital Taxonomy. The different taxonomical levels can be viewed individually via the navigation bar or below this introduction as embedded pages. This is an update to Bloom's Revised Taxonomy which attempts to account for the new behaviours and actions emerging as technology advances and becomes more ubiquitous.
educational-origami - Bloom's Digital Taxonomy
Now You See It // The Blog of Author Cathy N. Davidson » The Chronicle of Higher Education: Invisible Gorillas are Everywhere
By William Pannapacker By now most everyone has heard about an experiment that goes something like this: Students dressed in black or white bounce a ball back and forth, and observers are asked to keep track of the bounces to team members in white shirts. While that’s happening, another student dressed in a gorilla suit wanders into their midst, looks around, thumps his chest, then walks off, apparently unseen by most observers because they were so focused on the bouncing ball. Voilà : attention blindness. The invisible-gorilla experiment is featured in Cathy Davidson’s new book, Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn (Viking, 2011). Davidson is a founder of a nearly 7,000-member organization called Hastac, or the Humanities, Arts, Sciences, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory, that was started in 2002 to promote the use of digital technology in academe.Rare photo of the elusive tree octopus The Pacific Northwest tree octopus ( Octopus paxarbolis ) can be found in the temperate rainforests of the Olympic Peninsula on the west coast of North America. Their habitat lies on the Eastern side of the Olympic mountain range, adjacent to Hood Canal. These solitary cephalopods reach an average size (measured from arm-tip to mantle-tip,) of 30-33 cm.
Save The Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus
Education - Teaching and Learning Resources
VOLUME 26, ISSUE 3 — SPRING 2012 The entire spring issue of Rethinking Schools is accessible here, free of charge. If you aren’t already a member of Rethinking Schools, we hope the exciting and thought-provoking articles in this issue will inspire you to join. Every day, teachers are being pressured to compete with each other and push their students over the testing precipice, all in the name of accountability—a word that has become corporate-speak for test, test, test. On a very different trajectory, Rethinking Schools has assembled two new books that focus on what teachers are really accountable for: the learning, empowerment, and well-being of their students.
Rethinking Schools
Complicating “White Privilege” » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
by PAUL C. GORSKI In my favorite photograph of my Grandma Wilma, taken during her early teens, she stands outside her Kitzmiller, Maryland, house. The house’s exterior, cracking and worn, hints at the working poor life she and her family are living in Appalachia.
Diversity, Equity, Multicultural, Cultural Competency, and Social Justice Research, Essays and Scholarship
Check out Assault on Kids: How Hyper-Accountability, Corporatization, Deficit Ideologies, and Ruby Payne Are Destroying Our Schools , a new book edited by Roberta Ahlquist, Paul C. Gorski, and Theresa Montaño (Peter Lang, 2011). Hyper-accountability, corporatization, deficit ideology, and Ruby Payne's preparation of teachers to comply with these and other atrocities are not merely markers of philosophical shifts in education. They are manifestations of a neoliberal remaking of public schooling into a private and corporate enterprise. Collectively, these trends are experienced not just as an imposition, but as an assault on quality pedagogy; an assault on democratic ideals of equity and social justice; and an assault on kids compelled to participate simply because they are public school students. This edited collection is a response by critically-minded educators, activists, and scholars - both a reaction to and a call to action against these vilifications.
Welcoming Schools - School Bullying Resources, Family Diversity Training and Tools for Educators
Welcoming Schools is an LGBT-inclusive approach to addressing family diversity, gender stereotyping and bullying and name-calling in K-5 learning environments.Planning to Change the World — Planning to Change the World
Pre- order your copy from Rethinking Schools by June 30, 2012 to get the discount price of $14 each for the hard copy ($13 each for bulk orders) plus shipping and handling. Orders will be shipped in early June. Planning to Change the World : A Plan Book for Social Justice Teachers 2012-2013 is a plan book for educators who believe their students can and will change the world.Instructional Design