Teaching: One Size Does NOT Fit All Tweets of the Morning 10/10/12

We must diversify instruction, no choice.

America's love of diversity must spread to the differentiation of instruction in the classroom. We are all Special Education teachers, ELL teachers, GATE teachers, Art teachers, PE teachers, Social Studies teachers, Math teachers, Language Arts teachers, Science teachers, and most of all, WE ARE ALL READING TEACHERS. At the levels our students need. There are not enough special pull-out classes to 'fix' the English Language Learners and those with learning disabilities. I read today that most teachers are new. Good. Maybe a new crop of teachers will be willing to innovate and diversify instruction for the well being of our kids.

1. How to Add Variety to the Classroom

http://www.ehow.com/how_7776128_add-variety-classroom.html 

2. Experts brace for wave of autistic adults

http://www.sfgate.com/health/article/Experts-brace-for-wave-of-autistic-adults-3921071.php#src=fb 

3. How Boys and Girls Learn Differently

http://www.webmd.com/parenting/features/how-boys-and-girls-learn-differently 

Is your son's fidgeting and wriggling driving you to distraction? Don't worry -- he's perfectly normal.

4. Strategies for Working With English-Language Learners

http://www.edweek.org/tm/section/chat/2012/10/11/index.html#info 

5. Attention Disorder or Not, Pills to Help in School

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/09/health/attention-disorder-or-not-children-prescribed-pills-to-help-in-school.html?_r=1&pagewanted=1&hpw 

6. Sharing Strategies for Counting Collections 

https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/counting-collections-lesson/?utm_source=fb&utm_medium=post10091202&utm_campaign=fbt 

 Grades 2-3, Math, Number Sense

Common Core Standards: Math.2.NBT.2 Math.3.NBT.2

A test is a test is a test?

7. Will the New Online Standardized Tests Be Different?

http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/10/will-the-new-online-standardized-tests-be-different/ 

8. Online Standardized Tests Are New, But Are They Revolutionary? 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/10/online-standardized-tests_n_1954569.html 

9. Down & Up: The Journey of a Child with LD

http://www.ncld.org/learning-disability-resources/videos/down-and-up-video?utm_source=ReadingRockets.org&utm_medium=Twitter 

Uh, I don't think so.

10. How to Raise a Child: 10 Rules from Susan Sontag

Be consistent. Always speak well of his pop. Do not discourage childish fantasies.

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/09/13/susan-sontag-10-rules-for-raising-a-child/ 

11. Tackling Teenage Sexuality

http://www.autismspeaks.org/blog/2012/10/02/tackling-teenage-sexuality 

12. Gathering Data in a Standards-Based Literacy Classroom

 http://theeducatorsroom.com/2012/10/gathering-data-in-a-standards-based-literacy-classroom/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+theeducatorsroom%2FvPKE+%28EducatorsRoom%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher

 I love you, Mindshift. You're so fascinating.

13. Good Read: The Flip — End of a Love Affair

http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/jp/good-read-the-flip-end-of-a-love-affair/?utm_source=feedburner&

14. The Biggest “No-No” in Reading Instruction

http://theeducatorsroom.com/2012/08/the-biggest-no-no-in-reading-instruction/ 

15. The Reading Paradigm: Equity Does Not Mean Equal in Reading Instruction

http://theeducatorsroom.com/2012/08/things-i-wish-i-knew-earlier-in-my-career-equity-does-not-mean-equal/ 

16. Uncovering Sensory-Based Motor Disorders

http://special-ism.com/uncovering-sensory-based-motor-disorders/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Special-ism+%28Special-ism%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher 

17. 5 Sensory Ways to Celebrate Fruits and Veggies More Matters Month

http://special-ism.com/author/martianne/ 

18. The Journey of An Unemployed Teacher: A Shock to the System!

http://theeducatorsroom.com/2012/10/the-journey-of-an-unemployed-teacher-a-shock-to-the-system/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+theeducatorsroom%2FvPKE+%28EducatorsRoom%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher 

19.Social Skills Activities for Kids with Autism

http://autism.lovetoknow.com/Social_Skills_Activities_for_Kids_with_Autism 

You should check out these questions--very interesting.

20. Abu Dhabi Science Festival

https://www.facebook.com/masdar.ae 

Answers to the questions at http://www.masdar.ae/en/home/index.aspx.