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Teachers construct the most difficult solutions everyday. For 180 days every year. After a few weeks in the summer, they begin again.
"A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock pile when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind."- Antoine Saint-ExuperyWe owe them thanks and admiration.
How Do We Learn?
How Do You Learn?
Please read this list and add one-some of your own best learning methods or comment here and reaffirm one-some of the methods from the list:
--Memorizing
--Making Observations
--Testing a Hypothesis
--Reflecting
--Drawing Conclusions
--Creating Illustrations
--Working with Something Until You Get It
--Making Connections to Something Else You Already Know
--Researching 'till You Drop
--Paraphrasing the Research and/or Content of Others
--Summarizing
--Paired or Group Discussion
--Asking Questions (click the link below for John Barell's great book "Why are school buses always yellow?")
Reciprocal Teaching
Posted May 01, 2008
(National Teacher's Day is May 6, 2009)
Abundant Learning
Assumptions and a few Conclusions
Learning increases in school communities where there is collegiality. Read the rest of this research: ASCD blogTrackback URL: http://www.typepad.com/t/trackback/16423034
Learning Is:
1. Goal-Oriented
2. Linking New Information to Prior Knowledge
3. Organizing & Connecting New Information
4. Non-Linear
5. Occuring in Phases (think of Bloom's Taxonomy of Cognitive Learning but consider also the Affective Taxonomy of Krathwohl.)
6. Influenced by Cognitive Development
7. Maximized when we show to another what we have learned.
8. When the school day focuses on teaching.
Just Published on Amazon
Great teaching books newly published or newly recommended to me
Why Are School Buses Always Yellow?: Teaching for Inquiry, PreK-5
Amazon Price: $33.95 (as of 10/06/2008)
Celebrity's Favorite Teachers
- Celebrity's Favorite Teachers
- Celebrities describe and give a shout-out to their favorite teachers.
Links for Courageous Teachers
- Our Overnight Planning System
- When you need a resource, an idea, a tip, or a virtual hug, the OOPS webpage is here! Links to Bloom, Krathwohl, Constructivist Approaches, and more.
- Motivating Our Students
- Tips to encourage and invite classroom success.
- Glossary of Instructional Strategies
- An essential resource with complete example pages to download.
- The Question is the Answer
- Questioning Strategies
- Layered Curriculum
- Gives Students choices for curriculum mastery, includes units created by teachers.
- Open Educational Resources
- OER Commons is a teaching and learning network of shared materials, from K-college, from algebra to zoology, open to all to use.
- The Partnership for 21st Century Skills
- How can we teach in a manner that matches how students prefer to learn? This website offers ideas.
- The OOPS Blog
- ...you knew it was just a matter of time! :)
Squidoo Teaching Lenses
Lots of great ideas from other lensmasters
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Great Books for Abundant Teaching
Inviting School Success: A Self-Concept Approach to Teaching, Learning, and Democratic Practice (Education)
Amazon Price: $73.95 (as of 10/06/2008)
The First Days Of School: How To Be An Effective Teacher
Amazon Price: $19.77 (as of 10/06/2008)
Developing More Curious Minds
Amazon Price: $23.35 (as of 10/06/2008)
We Care Curriculum for Preschool Revised
Amazon Price: $18.21 (as of 10/06/2008)
Six Thinking Hats
Amazon Price: $10.19 (as of 10/06/2008)
The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life
Amazon Price: (as of 10/06/2008)
The Seven Laws of the Learner: How to Teach Almost Anything to Practically Anyone (Seven Laws of the Learner)
Amazon Price: $16.49 (as of 10/06/2008)
Active Learning: 101 Strategies to Teach Any Subject
Amazon Price: $44.09 (as of 10/06/2008)
The Organized Student: Teaching Children the Skills for Success in School and Beyond
Amazon Price: $10.17 (as of 10/06/2008)
iTunes Music for the Classroom
iMixes for Classroom Use
- Songs to Use in the Classroom Part 1
- Music is essential in the classroom. Music can get kids moving, help with transition
to different activities, and help concentration. Music can also form an ambient
background for reading and writing. These songs are good starting points for using
music in an innovative classroom. - Kid Songs for the Classroom
- Good songs for the elementary classroom or family time at home.
- Calming Classroom Songs
- Use this iMix for ambient music to minimize distractions or invite quiet work and
reflection.
Abundant Vocabulary
Teaching & Learning Terms
Constructivist~ Learners build or construct their own scaffold for knowledge aquisition. A gradual shift from reliance on the teacher (teacher-centered) to a reliance on the self as learner (learner-centered.)Differentiation~ Match student learning
needs with the best kind of learning activity.
Hegemony~Preponderant influence over others
Holonomy~ To be simultaneously whole and part; When a person functions at her/his resourceful best.
Iteration~Getting closer to your desired goal through repetition of procedure
Metacognition~Thinking about thinking
Scaffolds~ Supports to learning. The best scaffolds are inquiry-based activities and investigations.
See the Lexicon of Learning from ASCD for other important words:
Lexicon of Learning
Teaching Movies
Movies that Show Great Teaching Not Incompetence
Your Recommendations for Books From Amazon
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Reader Feedback
Kids Say the Most Quotable Things
When I was a second-year teacher, a young man entered my high school classroom, looked me straight in the eye and said, "My name is _______ and I have a 162 IQ and there is absolutely nothing you can teach me."
I immediately asked him what a gallon of milk cost.
I received a tilted head.
I asked what a gallon of gas cost.
His head stayed tilted.
I asked him what a pair on Manolo Blahnik pumps cost.
I wasn't expecting an answer here.
We began a tentative partnership to teach each other what we both did not know.
What are the memorable quotes from students you have heard? Please share them here...
Teaching Is....
Photos from Flick'r
Photos to describe a teacher's day.
What caption would you give them? Give them your own caption. (NOTE: If you see bunches of boxes with red X's, then your school filter is blocking Flick'r.)
Gulf Shores, AL
6:15 am in Gulf Shores, AL
Downtown Columbia, South Carolina
Abilene, Texas
Lubec, Maine
Tiny nest at our front door
Should I stay or should I go?
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Who was your most memorable teacher?
Now's the chance to leave an online thank-you to that special teacher who helped you get the gum outa your hair, gave you the lead in the school play, or told you "yes" when everyone else said "no."
