Saturday, March 28, 2015

MzTeachuh: Start Your Garden in Class Now!

MzTeachuh: Start Your Garden in Class Now!: Spring is springing! How about researching a school garden? The students can start seedlings indoors now. So many positives about a garden-...

Start Your Garden in Class Now!

Spring is springing! How about researching a school garden? The students can start seedlings indoors now. So many positives about a garden--and the anticipation of joy and above freezing weather is a plus in itself.  STEM and fun in the garden!

School Gardens

http://growing-minds.org/school-gardens/ 

How to Build a Straw Bale Garden

http://modernfarmer.com/2013/07/straw-bale-gardening/ 

REAL School Garden

http://www.realschoolgardens.org/ 

School Garden Checklist

http://www.letsmove.gov/school-garden-checklist 

Keyhole Gardening Tips
Keyhole Gardening Tips

Keyhole Gardening

http://www.hgtvgardens.com/raised-garden/keyhole-gardening-tips 

 

 Welcome to School Garden Wizard

http://www.schoolgardenwizard.org/

Collective School Garden Network 

http://www.csgn.org/

School Garden Resource Center

https://www.wholekidsfoundation.org/resources/school-garden-resources/ 


MzTeachuh: Teaching Is Being Organized (Within Reason)

MzTeachuh: Teaching Is Being Organized (Within Reason): 1. CLASSROOM ORGANIZATION  http://clutterfreeclassroom.blogspot.com/p/classroom-organization-giveaway.html   2. 100 Classroom Organiz...

Teaching Is Being Organized (Within Reason)

1. CLASSROOM ORGANIZATION 

http://clutterfreeclassroom.blogspot.com/p/classroom-organization-giveaway.html 

2. 100 Classroom Organizing Tricks

http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/article/100-classroom-organizing-tricks 

3.  How to Organize a Teacher's Grade Book

http://www.ehow.com/how_2078628_organize-teachers-grade-book.html 

4.  Cool Classroom Libraries

http://pinterest.com/reallygoodstuff/cool-classroom-libraries/ 

5.  Teacher Roles - Organizing

http://www.teachermatters.com/classroom-management/roles-of-the-teacher/organizing.html 

6.  Age-Appropriate Games and Activities:

http://www.simplefunkidparties.com/classroomgamesandactivities.html

7. The Ultimate Organized Classroom

http://www.teachervision.fen.com/classroom-management/school/4731.html 

Having the ultimate organized classroom can sure tucker you out!

  

MzTeachuh: Does My Child Need Special Ed. Services?

MzTeachuh: Does My Child Need Special Ed. Services?: No need to panic! Kids develop on their own schedules. But it is a good idea to notice how your  child (or a child in your class) is resp...

Does My Child Need Special Ed. Services?

No need to panic! Kids develop on their own schedules. But it is a good idea to notice how your child (or a child in your class) is responding to instruction since there could be a learning disability hampering their success. Here are some general questions to ask:




Does the child remember verbal instructions well?

Does the child retain information in written or graphic form?
Is the child's attention span similar to that of her/his peers?
Does the child's handwriting and art fall within the general expectations of the grade level?
Can the child spell within grade level expectations?


This is a very general list. If parents and teachers do think there may be a learning disability, the most common are auditory and/or visual. In my experience, the students usually qualify for services in Reading/ELA with a mild visual processing disorder.

In this state, the Special Education teacher would use specialized testing materials to pinpoint the current academic levels for the student. We tested with WIAT II or Woodcock Johnson and sometimes the TOWL, but there are many tests that will be sufficient. The law states that a qualified staff member must do the testing. To discern a processing disorder or other handicap, a district educational psychologist will administer other tests. Then the IEP team will initially meet and a decision will be made if the child qualifies for services.

Here are some links to further inform a parent or teacher of what performance or behavior might indicate a learning disability.


Understood: for Learning and Processing Issues
https://www.understood.org/en

Learning Disabilities Association of America
http://www.ldanatl.org/index.cfm


Visual Processing Disorder (Dyslexia)

  • Reads slowly and painfully
  • Experiences decoding errors, especially with the order of letters
  • Shows wide disparity between listening comprehension and reading comprehension of some text
  • Has trouble with spelling
  • May have difficulty with handwriting
  • Exhibits difficulty recalling known words
  • Has difficulty with written language
  • May experience difficulty with math computations
  • Decoding real words is better than nonsense words
  • Substitutes one small sight word for another: a, I, he, the, there, was 
National Center for Learning Disabilities
http://www.ncld.org/ld-basics/related-issues/information-processing/auditory-processing-disorders-in-detail

 Auditory Processing Disorders


  • Learning to read
  • Distinguishing difference between similar sounds. Example: Seventy and seventeen
  • Understanding spoken language, following directions and remembering details
  • Seems to hear but not listen
  • Remembering people's names
  • Memorizing telephone numbers
  • Following multi-step directions
  • Recalling stories or songs 
  • Confusing multi-digit numbers, such as 74 and 47
  • Confusing lists and other types of sequences 
  • Remembering the correct order of a series of instructions
These are the two prominent processing disorders, with Reading/ELA being the most common area to qualify for Special Ed. services, at least in my experience.  Attention Deficit and its variations  is another topic altogether, but can aggravate other learning problems.

Check with the child's team--parents, teachers, Special Education staff--see what's up and how this young one can get the assistance to succeed.


MzTeachuh: Educational Links 3/28/15

MzTeachuh: Educational Links 3/28/15: A Path Appears: Awareness, Engagement, and Action http://www.edutopia.org/blog/path-appears-awareness-engagement-action-mark-phillips...

Educational Links 3/28/15


A Path Appears: Awareness, Engagement, and Action

Air Pollutants During Pregnancy Can Damage Child’s Brain, Up Risk of Cognitive, Behavioral Problems


How The Activity Learning Theory Works


Civil rights complaints to U.S. Department of Education reach a record high 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/local/wp/2015/03/18/civil-rights-complaints-to-u-s-department-of-education-reach-a-record-high/

Making Room for Making


The Social/Emotional Component of Special Education Eligibility 



Just How Universal Is Ed Tech in the Classroom?





MzTeachuh: The Human Side of Assessing Writing

MzTeachuh: The Human Side of Assessing Writing: The higher level thinking skills it requires to write, and assess writing, brings humans right up to  the level of angels. Which is a meta...

The Human Side of Assessing Writing


The higher level thinking skills it requires to write, and assess writing, brings humans right up to the level of angels. Which is a metaphor no computer program could compute, I'm guessing. After teaching kids to write for about thirty years, I will say that allowing a mathematical computer program to attempt to inspire young writers is rather unimaginative, to say the least.


Commas, all I can think about are commas.

I've seen what those programs did to the Gettysburg Address. Low scores for brevity and poor sentence structure, no doubt. "I Have A Dream," I bet too much repetition and veering off the main topic. We won't consider what a computer would try to do to poetry--ha, it kind of makes me laugh--the overload e e cummings would give it (just on written conventions!)


Can we trust our kids' thought development to a computer program?


1. The Algorithm Didn’t Like My Essay


http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/10/business/essay-grading-software-as-teachers-aide-digital-domain.html?_r=1&ref=education 


No points for free indirect discourse, Jane.

Even English teachers have different perspectives on writing. I've worked with English teachers that will say, "Oh, I don't like poetry." How can that be? How can a person with no taste for the higher developed thoughts of man train young people to be eloquent? How can a machine with no soul?


2. Computers Grade Essays Fast ... But Not Always Well


http://www.npr.org/2012/06/07/154452475/computers-grade-essays-fast-but-not-always-well 


The choice of words (and using written conventions, sentence structure, new use of vocabulary) to express thought really need an educated, well-read person to analyze it. And a person tolerant of new ideas. Are we looking for Data from Star Trek? He couldn't even use a contraction or understand an idiom.


Don't we want our kids to create new idioms?


What do they mean, "Miss Bronte, Wuthering Heights too emotional?"

 "There's a terrible tendency to confuse raising standards with standardizing." 


— Sir Ken Robinson


 


Yes, Sir Ken, standardizing the genius of the next generation will only make them really bored with education. And finding a new venue to express themselves besides traditional school. I think maybe they've already found the acceptance of new ideas online.


I scored 3 on the rubric, same as the Emancipation Proclamation?

 





"On a scale of 1 to 6, one of the greatest presidents of the United States was only getting 2s and 3s. " 


- University of Akron's Mark Shermis, on a computer's evaluation of the Gettysburg Address


I've often thought it was a good thing Lincoln had a frontier education. More clear thinking. More clarity of action. Our kids are on the tech frontier and will reject the criticism of an algorithm that is from the past, traditional and can't think; just like they reject intolerant and backward teachers.


We won't be climbing the ladder of Bloom's Taxonomy if we remain super-glued to writing on the lower rungs of convention and sentence structure without the inspiration of living language.  Woops, that was another metaphor a computer couldn't evaluate.


Ye gods, I only got a 3 on the Writing Rubric.

 "Devise, wit; write, pen; for I am for whole volumes in folio."
Love's Labour's Lost -- Act I, Scene II


Almost funny how William's words would end in the clutches of a computer program--maybe Word's Labour's Lost


 

Friday, March 27, 2015

MzTeachuh: Educational Links of the Day 3/27/2015

MzTeachuh: Educational Links of the Day 3/27/2015: 4 Ways to Turn Distracted Students into Engaged Learners http://www.edudemic.com/turn-distracted-students-into-engaged-learners/   ...

Educational Links of the Day 3/27/2015

4 Ways to Turn Distracted Students into Engaged Learners

http://www.edudemic.com/turn-distracted-students-into-engaged-learners/ 

Five-Minute Film Festival: Reimagining the Library 

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/film-festival-reimagining-library-design 

Rethinking the Role of Educator as Facilitator Amidst Tech Transformation

http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2015/03/27/rethinking-the-role-of-educator-as-facilitator-amidst-tech-transformation/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+kqed%2FnHAK+%28MindShift%29 

Just How Common Is ADHD, Really? A New Study May Have the Answer 

http://www.specialneedsdigest.com/2015/03/just-how-common-is-adhd-really-new.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FLUdSt+%28Special+Needs+Digest%29 

No Child Left Behind: What standardized test scores reveal about its legacy

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2015/03/10/no-child-left-behind-what-standardized-test-scores-reveal-about-its-legacy/

Why Creativity in the Classroom Matters More Than Ever

http://www.edudemic.com/creativity-in-the-classroom/ 

The Changing Role Of The Teacher In Personalized Learning Environments

http://www.teachthought.com/learning/the-changing-role-of-the-teacher-in-personalized-learning-environment/ 

Awesome Visuals on ADHD

http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2014/04/two-awesome-visuals-on-adhd-for-teachers.html 

 

 

MzTeachuh: Learning Theory News

MzTeachuh: Learning Theory News: What Are The Habits Of Mind? http://www.teachthought.com/learning/what-are-the-habits-of-mind/ It’s a Mistake Not to Use Mistakes as P...

Learning Theory News


What Are The Habits Of Mind?

http://www.teachthought.com/learning/what-are-the-habits-of-mind/

It’s a Mistake Not to Use Mistakes as Part of the Learning Process

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/use-mistakes-in-learning-process-richard-curwin 

How Relearning Old Concepts Alongside New Ones Makes It All Stick

http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/10/how-relearning-old-concepts-alongside-new-ones-makes-it-all-stick/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+kqed%2FnHAK+%28MindShift%29 

How working memory games can improve kids’ executive function in 5 minutes a day

http://thecornerstoneforteachers.com/2014/10/working-memory-games.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheCornerstone+%28The+Cornerstone+Blog%29 

Curiosity: It Helps Us Learn, But Why? 
http://www.npr.org/blogs/ed/2014/10/24/357811146/curiosity-it-may-have-killed-the-cat-but-it-helps-us-learn?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=education 


  

MzTeachuh: Teaching Is Trying Everything To Get Through

MzTeachuh: Teaching Is Trying Everything To Get Through: 1. Teaching and Learning Methods and Strategies  http://www.ic.arizona.edu/ic/edtech/strategy.html#Col   2. Student-Centered Learn...

Teaching Is Trying Everything To Get Through

1. Teaching and Learning

Methods and Strategies 

http://www.ic.arizona.edu/ic/edtech/strategy.html#Col 

2. Student-Centered Learning Strategies for Math and Other Subjects 


http://www.edutopia.org/blog/student-centered-learning-activities-paul-bogdan 







MzTeachuh: Ed Tech Equity: Let All Students Learn in the 21st...

MzTeachuh: Ed Tech Equity: Let All Students Learn in the 21st...: Ye Olde Computer Room--an archeological dig for computers in a storage space  down the hall  from the classrooms. And the kids are happy ...

Ed Tech Equity: Let All Students Learn in the 21st Century

Ye Olde Computer Room--an archeological dig for computers in a storage space down the hall from the classrooms. And the kids are happy to visit it for CoolMath once a week.

Why is ed tech equity so hard to resolve? Is it only the lack of ed tech in disadvantaged districts? No, not really.

All teachers need to become master teachers right now to successfully develop classroom effectiveness in using ed tech if the demographic includes serious stressors such as poverty, diversity, and instability. Every quality of sound teaching is in play to create and maintain a positive, secure learning environment for kids in difficult situations. To briefly research what it is to be an effective teacher, you can check out my Mzteachuh's 'Teaching Is...' Collection of postshttp://mzteachuh.blogspot.com/2012/12/mzteachuhs-teaching-is-collection-of.html
Have I always been the perfect teacher? Heavens, no, but I do always give it my best shot. What else can we expect of ourselves?

Why would students not bring devices to school?   


Teachers can expect a higher level of disruption in some demographics. Property damage and theft discourages students from exposing expensive tech at school. Admin and effective classroom management can create a safe place for students to use ed tech equipment. That means in every area of the school: the gym, lunchroom and classes in which the tech isn't used. Making a safe facility for personal property involves security, including all school staff as well as teachers and admin. Everyone needs to be at their best every day.

Why are teachers relunctant to use personal devices in class? 

Many teachers really love direct instruction because it requires less classroom management. The students sit. They don't talk to each other, and there is no required teacher interaction. That doesn't work now. (Never did very well.) A teacher must be active to facilitate the students using devices in class, make the rules clear and implement the rules through interaction with the students. Get up out of that computer chair and participate in what's going on in class.

How to minimize digital classroom distractions

http://www.eschoolnews.com/2014/08/14/digital-classroom-distraction-043/? 


• No smartphones are allowed when the teacher is conducting a lecture.
• Devices should be put on silent/airplane mode before the start of the class.
• Tablets should only be used during group exercises and note-taking sessions. 


Teachers mostly come from homes that encourage learning even if those homes were not affluent or privileged. Many students who are left out of the Tech Equity Circle do not have such advantages. Teachers need to work hard at developing personal relationships with each student and his/her family  to provide the positive stability in class and home for effective learning. 


How to Get the Most Out of Student-Owned Devices in Any Classroom


http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/08/how-to-get-the-most-out-of-student-owned-devices-in-any-classroom/ 


“The kids who ‘have’ are going to keep having and the kids who ‘have-not’ are going to keep being over there,” Mills said. He suggests the best way to build equitable classroom technology use is to create a culture of trust. That takes time, but Mills said teachers need to give students a chance to prove themselves before displaying mistrust. “Instead of automatically saying, ‘I don’t trust you,’ why not create opportunities where you can trust them,” he said.


Can teachers cross the cultural divide in their own classrooms?


The United States will increase in cultural diversity. That includes economic diversity. The social and emotional learning task for teachers will be whether we can see the student instead of the demographic. 


How can we prepare teachers to work with culturally diverse students and their families? 


http://www.hfrp.org/family-involvement/fine-family-involvement-network-of-educators/member-insights/how-can-we-prepare-teachers-to-work-with-culturally-diverse-students-and-their-families-what-skills-should-educators-develop-to-do-this-successfully  


Diversity capital is intended to name the type of teaching enhancement that embraces emotion and drives teachers to seek new opportunities and ideas for building positive relationships with students and families from culturally diverse backgrounds. Diversity capital can in turn afford teachers the knowledge, skills, and dispositions needed for a sustainable commitment to, validation of, and exchange with culturally diverse students and families. 


Communicating Cross-Culturally: What Teachers Should Know


http://iteslj.org/Articles/Pratt-Johnson-CrossCultural.html 


In the United States, with so much cultural mixing, teachers no longer have a choice as to whether they want to interact with diversity or not. 

Classroom management requires a teacher to daily analyze how things are going, how things went, and how will we do better tomorrow. Classroom management involves the whole team of teachers the students see each day--so communicate! Classroom management involves admin to discipline fairly and consistently. Quite a task for all. 

Top Ten Strategies for Classroom Management and Discipline: Proximity and Mobility


http://pattersonandmcmillan.weebly.com/proximity-and-mobility.html 


Goofing off in the classroom is inevitable in every classroom regardless of how much experience a teacher has.  However, there are specific strategies that teachers use to maintain off-task behavior and that is the use of Proximity and Mobility. 


Just goofing off would be a relief for some classrooms, but the basics are the same. Clarify the rules, enforce the rules, and present effective activities.


Let all students learn in the 21st century.


Innovative Strategies for Ensuring Device Equity

http://www.edtechmagazine.com/k12/article/2013/06/innovative-strategies-ensuring-device-equity 

School officials wondering what to do for students who lack their own notebook computers, smartphones or tablets can acquire extra devices with a little bit of ingenuity.

 

 

MzTeachuh: MzTeachuh's Top Posts of the Week 3/27/15

MzTeachuh: MzTeachuh's Top Posts of the Week 3/27/15: Women's History Month: Mona Lisa http://melanielinktaylor.mzteachuh.org/2015/03/womens-history-month-mona-lisa.html Women's H...

MzTeachuh's Top Posts of the Week 3/27/15

Women's History Month: Mona Lisa
http://melanielinktaylor.mzteachuh.org/2015/03/womens-history-month-mona-lisa.html

Women's History is still big on MzTeachuh this week:

Women's History Month: Rosie the Riveter
http://melanielinktaylor.mzteachuh.org/2015/03/womens-history-month-rosie-riveter.html?spref=bl

Women's History Month: Two Irish Mums Won the Nobel Peace Prize http://melanielinktaylor.mzteachuh.org/2015/03/womens-history-month-two-irish-mums-won.html

Women's History-Is There Much?
http://melanielinktaylor.mzteachuh.org/2015/03/womens-history-is-there-much.html?spref=bl

And Education stuff and chuckles:

Education Links 2/24/15
http://melanielinktaylor.mzteachuh.org/2015/02/educations-22415.html

Teaching Is Reading Instruction--In All Subjects
http://melanielinktaylor.mzteachuh.org/2015/03/teaching-is-reading-instruction-in-all.html

Hey, Meet Me At Recess By the Swings!
http://melanielinktaylor.mzteachuh.org/2015/03/hey-meet-me-at-recess-by-swings.html

The Smarty Pants Files
http://melanielinktaylor.mzteachuh.org/2015/03/the-smarty-pants-files.html

Cheesy Jokes and Serious Thoughts About Easter
http://melanielinktaylor.mzteachuh.org/2015/03/cheesy-jokes-and-serious-thoughts-about.html?spref=bl

And two somethings beautiful for your  [Just] Spring.

Here Comes the Sun (Monet and Harrison)
http://melanielinktaylor.mzteachuh.org/2015/03/here-comes-sun-monet-and-harrison.html

Fields in Spring, Claude Monet
So many thanks to our international reading audience. It is a privilege to serve you. USA, India, Canada, UK, France, Russia, Australia, Ukraine. Ireland.

Thursday, March 26, 2015

MzTeachuh: Here Comes the Sun (Monet and Harrison)

MzTeachuh: Here Comes the Sun (Monet and Harrison): Fields in Spring, Claude Monet The Beatles- Here Comes The Sun  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6j4TGqVl5g   Here comes the sun,...

Here Comes the Sun (Monet and Harrison)

Fields in Spring, Claude Monet

The Beatles- Here Comes The Sun 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwmVfewqu7I

Here comes the sun, here comes the sun
And I say it's all right

Little darling, it's been a long cold lonely winter
Little darling, it feels like years since it's been here

Here comes the sun, here comes the sun
And I say it's all right

Little darling, the smiles returning to the faces
Little darling, it seems like years since it's been here

Here comes the sun, here comes the sun
And I say it's all right

Sun, sun, sun, here it comes
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes

Little darling, I feel that ice is slowly melting
Little darling, it seems like years since it's been clear

Here comes the sun, here comes the sun
And I say it's all right
Here comes the sun, here comes the sun
It's all right, it's all right


 

MzTeachuh: Educational Links 3/26/16

MzTeachuh: Educational Links 3/26/16: 12 Ways to Avoid Student Humiliation http://www.edutopia.org/blog/12-ways-avoid-student-humiliation-richard-curwin   Are We Closing t...

Educational Links 3/26/16

12 Ways to Avoid Student Humiliation

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/12-ways-avoid-student-humiliation-richard-curwin 

Are We Closing the Discipline Gap?

http://www.wrightslaw.com/blog/?p=12562&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheWrightslawWay+%28The+Wrightslaw+Way%29 

Why Kids Need to Move, Touch and Experience to Learn

http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2015/03/26/why-kids-need-to-move-touch-and-experience-to-learn/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+kqed%2FnHAK+%28MindShift%29 

Celebrating Women's History in Pictures: Picture Books for Women's History Month

http://www.amightygirl.com/blog?p=2241 

Poor internet access hinders Hispanics’ educational success

http://www.eschoolnews.com/2015/03/24/hispanic-internet-access-403/ 

Teaching Strategies: Selecting Instructional Materials 

http://www.teachhub.com/teaching-strategies-selecting-instructional-materials 

When Teaching Makes You Cry

http://www.teachthought.com/teaching/when-teaching-makes-you-cry/ 

 

 

Are We Closing the Discipline Gap?

 

Are We Closing the Discipline Gap?

 

MzTeachuh: The Smarty Pants Files

MzTeachuh: The Smarty Pants Files: Q: Teacher: Didn't I tell you to stand at the end of the line? A: Student: I tried but there was someone already there! Q: How is...

The Smarty Pants Files


Q: Teacher: Didn't I tell you to stand at the end of the line?
A: Student: I tried but there was someone already there!

Q: How is an English teacher like a judge?
A: They both give out sentences.

Q: Teacher: You missed school yesterday, didn't you?
A: Student: Not really.


Q: Why did the teacher go to the beach?
A: To test the water.

Q: Why did the teacher wear sunglasses?
A: Because his class was so bright!

Q: Why were the teacher's eyes crossed?
A: She couldn't control her pupils!




Q: Teacher: If I had 6 oranges in one hand and 7 apples in the other, what would I have?
A: Student: Big hands!

Q: Teacher: If you got $20 from 5 people, what you get?
A: Student: A new bike.

Q: Teacher: I hope I didn't see you looking at John's exam?
A: Student: I hope you didn't either.



Q: Teacher: What is the shortest month?
A: Student: May, it only has three letters.


Q: Teacher: Answer my question at once. What is 7 plus 2?
A: Student: At once!

Q: Why did closing her eyes remind the teacher of her classroom?
A: Because there were no pupils to see.

Q: Why did the teacher turn the lights on?
A: Because her class was so dim.



Q: What did the ghost teacher say to the class?
A: Look at the board and I will go through it again.

Q: Why did the teacher write on the window?
A: Because she wanted the lesson to be very clear!

Q: What do you do if a teacher rolls her eyes at you?
A. Reach down, pick them up, and roll them back to her.

MzTeachuh: Teaching Is Giving Feedback

MzTeachuh: Teaching Is Giving Feedback: 1. Feedback to improve student learning What is feedback? http://www.flinders.edu.au/teaching/...

Teaching Is Giving Feedback




1. Feedback to improve student learning

What is feedback?

http://www.flinders.edu.au/teaching/teaching-strategies/assessment/feedback/ 


2. Tips for Grading and Giving Students Feedback


http://www.edutopia.org/blog/grading-tips-student-feedback-heather-wolpert-gawron 


3.  Giving feedback-Peer Review


http://pd.nottingham.ac.uk/eng/Learning-Teaching/Peer-Observation/Giving-feedback


4. Giving Effective Feedback


http://www.eduweb.vic.gov.au/edulibrary/public/teachlearn/student/activity3_2A.pdf 


5. Giving feedback to students


http://www.brookes.ac.uk/services/ocsld/firstwords/fw21.html 


6. How to Give Effective Oral Feedback


http://www.ascd.org/publications/books/108019/chapters/How-to-Give-Effective-Oral-Feedback.aspx 


7. Are You Good At Giving Feedback?


http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/thinking-about-kids/201002/are-you-good-giving-feedback-exercise-in-clapping 

 

MzTeachuh: Hey, Meet Me At Recess By the Swings!

MzTeachuh: Hey, Meet Me At Recess By the Swings!: Fitness expert has games for a 'trouble-free' playground  http://blog.mlive.com/chronicle/2008/10/curt_hinson_photos_for_centerp....

Hey, Meet Me At Recess By the Swings!

Fitness expert has games for a 'trouble-free' playground  http://blog.mlive.com/chronicle/2008/10/curt_hinson_photos_for_centerp.html

1. Recess Makes Kids Smarter

http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/article/recess-makes-kids-smarter 


2. Yay for Recess: Pediatricians Say It’s as Important as Math or Reading

http://healthland.time.com/2012/12/31/yay-for-recess-pediatricians-say-its-as-important-as-math-or-reading/ 

3. The 3 R’s? A Fourth Is Crucial, Too: Recess 

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/24/health/24well.html?_r=0 

4. The Role of Recess in Children’s Cognitive
Performance and School Adjustment 
 
5. The True Loss of Recess
 

 

Such enthusiasm!