This is an excellent idea. I am so going to spend some time over the summer and plan a couple of lessons like this. Great idea.
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Isolation eliminates success in education
I was recently reading on Leadershipfreak.com about three types of people you should surround yourself with as a leader. The post was very interesting. Starting out with the statement “The enemy of success is isolation.” Now, this for sure applies to leaders but how about teachers in the classroom? Most teachers are in isolation. Rarely…
There is no more important skill than reading!
So I was reading this morning and came across this article. Literacy is important for all students. It opens doors for children and it opens them wide. We are teachers who teach kids. We DO NOT teach subjects. “I am a band teacher!” WRONG! You are a teacher of children, not a teacher of a…
Starting Proficiency in the Classroom
Ten years in the classroom is now approaching. Last year I got adventurous with my professional goals and decided to link using Facebook as one of my goals. At first, I was scared about going down that road and so were many others, but it worked out just fine. This year I may have gone…
Creating Rubrics: Tools & Guidelines
Some teachers say they use rubrics for everything and they do. Some of those rubrics that I have seen that they use are horrible and just thrown together without taking the learner into consideration nor do they even define the proficient level for each student. Here is a post from ASCD about creating rubrics and…
Failure is NOT an option! Or is it?
We put a great deal of emphasis on that our schools are failing and that our kids are not learning in schools today. It is true, the American education system is in a triage situation and needs to have attention placed the critical needs. Many parents and teachers are concerned with the fact that students…
Flipping the Classroom Requires More Than Video
Flipping the classroom has become a large passion of mine. It is one of my ongoing professional goals to implement next year. I have to agree with these four bullet points. Poor video lectures are worse than the live version of the same lecture. They need to be engaging. Video lectures lead to less engaged…