August 2006
23 posts published in August 2006.
- 08.31.06Cores 1-4: Introduce the ELT reading strategies assessments (not shown here because we use them from year to year) and talk about the importance…Lesson Plans
- 08.30.06Core 1-2: Share-On: Share your Authentic prompts with 2-3 others and select the best one or two to be included in the online resource for student…Lesson Plans
- Writing as Inquiry (A G/T Pro. Dev. Opportunity)My questions: How can we use our language so that our students become more metacognitive and reflective? Others’ questions: Is peer editing…
- 08.29.06Cores 1-4: I was at a G/T Langauge Arts meeting for most of the day, so here are my sub plans. Core 3: Discuss any great reading that happened in…Lesson Plans
- MetawritingToday, in class, I asked my students to think of the best and worst prompts that they could be asked to write about (most authentic and least…
- Language Theory Class #2 08.28.06Linguistics is a sub-set of Cognitive Science. Linguistics is only a study of natural langauges (not like esperanto) If Language is a mirror to…
- 08.28.06Cores 1-4: Last week we spent quite a bit of time talking about our reading program. We have now sufficiently set up AR+. This week we are going…Lesson Plans
- 08.25.06Today’s lessons are a continuation of yesterday’s. Cores 1-4: I will be analyzing CSAP data in the main office today. I have left my substitute…Lesson Plans
- 08.24.06Cores 1-4: Introduce the concept of Authentic vs. Inauthentic writing prompts. Talk about ways of changing inauthentic writing prompts into…Lesson Plans
- 008/23/06Much of today’s lessons are a continuation of yesterday. Core 1: Go over the process of actually submitting a book review. Discuss-On: How do you…Lesson Plans
- 08/22/06Today’s lessons are extentions of yesterday. Core 1-2: Discuss-On: What is the biggest book/reading virus (meme) you have ever started? Collect…Lesson Plans
- Not Tagged – The Book MemeI was not tagged to contribute to the book meme, but that is okay because I mostly thought that memes were a little bit hokey. That is until I…
- Language Theory 08/21/06I am now taking a graduate course called Language Theory at the University of Colorado at Denver for my graduate program, “The Teaching of…
- 08/21/06Cores 1-2: Check syllabus signatures. Use the one book meme to start a dialog about books, createing a community of readers. My example. Review…Lesson Plans
- Consider me surprised.I have never been so convinced that our political leanings dictate our pedagogical leanings as when I read the comments from “The 95 Theses of…
- 08/18/06These lessons are a continuation of yesterday. Core 1-3: Write-On: Construct a metaphor for your reading life. For example. Go over Syllabus for…Lesson Plans
- 08/17/06Much of today’s lessons are a continuation of the ideas from yesterday. Cores 1+2: Discuss-On: Discuss with at least two people your list of…Lesson Plans
- 08/16/06All of this is a continuation of yesterday. Core 1: Think/Discuss-On: How will writing these goals down and sending yourself an e-mail influence…Lesson Plans
- 08/15/06Cores 1-2 (8th graders): Reorient students to the new setup. Talk about the unique opportunity that Looping provides. Introduce FutureMe: First…Lesson Plans
- The 95 Theses of Progressive TeachingI have had the busiest and most productive summer of my life. I have created a lesson planning wiki, a technology integration wiki, the beginnings…
- 08/14/06Ideas for the first day: Present how people see me vs. how I want to be seen. (talking about a fresh start). Don’t talk at all. Play a song that…Lesson Plans
- SafetyIn order to build community support for technology use in the classroom, we must make the community aware of the technology, but we must also…
- The first day of Pre-API will be attending a Pre-AP vertical teaming conference this entire week. I was excited about discussing rigorous classrooms and genuine vertical…