Teaching Without Tests
This is teaching as it should be! Allowing students to have a choice in demonstrating their knowledge is definitely differentiating and acceptance that one size does not fit all – in teaching,...
View ArticleSix Teaching Tools for Black History Month | Edutopia
Great resources! Six Teaching Tools for Black History Month | Edutopia. Filed under: black history month, Grades 6-12, Grades K-5, Higher Education, Lesson Planning, Martin Luther King, social studies...
View ArticleThoughts for Black History Month – “I Am”
I remember the ’60’s as a time of turbulence – a time of triumph. At the age of seven, my mother, siblings and I climbed the steps of a Greyhound Bus in Connecticut to join my father in Florida. My...
View ArticleSREB News: Online Teachers Share Strategies with ShortTakes
K-12 teachers – does classroom teaching have you feeling down? Think online! K-12 virtual schools are springing up across the nation. If you have a flair for technology and think you’d enjoy...
View ArticleA Visual Adaption of Sir Ken Robinson's TED Talk
Reblogged from TeachBytes: TED Talks are great resources for inspiration in the classroom, but sometimes my students struggle with focusing their attention on one person talking for so long. So, when...
View ArticleWhy teachers teach
I recently read an article written by a college student who is reconsidering her decision to become a teacher. While her heart seems to be in teaching, those around her are persuading her to pursue...
View ArticleWhy teachers leave
Teachers enter teaching full of enthusiasm – knowing they have an opportunity to affect the lives of many over their time in the classroom. Time and circumstance often wreak havoc on these idealistic...
View ArticleHow can we improve early education?
My father was a self-employed painting contractor. As a child I observed his love of work and determination to grow intellectually even though he left school after the eighth grade – in his day, an...
View ArticleWhat about the child?
In 1918, a special commission of the National Education Association presented a set of goals on the “purposes of school”. The list included: providing the child with a sense of ethics teaching the...
View ArticleObama Administration Sends Mixed Messages on Teachers and Testing – -...
From Education Week Teacher Update Obama Administration Sends Mixed Messages on Teachers and Testing – - Education Week Teacher. What are your thoughts?Filed under: Grades 6-12, Grades K-5, Higher...
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