World History
- Changing The Face Of Instruction
I am a member of several Facebook teacher sites and am in the midst of adding to one where a teacher said his administration has banned front of the room teaching. A number of the teachers are saying how awful that is. Truth be known I have...
- Rewordify To Simplify Student Readings
In my World History I ESOL classes I have usually have 25 kids who have been in the US less than four years and half who have been here just two years of fewer. So one thing I use is Google Translate when I am trying to get them to learn to write...
- What To Do On A Snow Day Tomorrow
The other day I learned that my book has gone to be printed and will definitely be out on the 27th of this month. One of the topics I discuss is how to deal with "alternative days" such as snow ones. If you like what you see below, you might...
- My Post For Digital Learning Day
Tomorrow the Alliance for Excellent Education, that started Digital Learning Day, is posting my thoughts on Digital Learning Day which I am also posting below. Last year in my Digital Learning Day post for the Alliance for Excellent Education I...
- Stickies On A Virtual Wall
Just the other day I was at an in-service where the presenter suggested one technique where students could write one question on a wall and others could answer it. Then he said that during a test students could look at the wall for a minute or...
World History
Our Kids by Robert Putnam
My blog is all about free things you can use with your students, but occasionally I veer as in posting about my own new book. But for year I have asked the students who do poorly in my classes why they don't care in an effort to better serve them. The answer is always the same "I don't know." Well, now I have a great answer after reading Robert Putnam's new book, Our Kids which argues that we have created two Americas - those in the middle upper class and above and the rest. He shows, using lots of statistics, but also anecdotal stories, that members of the lower classes are much more likely to have little or no college, more likely to divorce, be a member of far fewer extracurricular activities, be more likely to go to a school with fewer AP/IB classes, and on and on. He makes a strong argument (and we have heard this before) that the first three years are essential to the life development. He builds a case that fifty years ago it was much easier for someone to "rise up," but today that is much harder today.
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- Changing The Face Of Instruction
I am a member of several Facebook teacher sites and am in the midst of adding to one where a teacher said his administration has banned front of the room teaching. A number of the teachers are saying how awful that is. Truth be known I have...
- Rewordify To Simplify Student Readings
In my World History I ESOL classes I have usually have 25 kids who have been in the US less than four years and half who have been here just two years of fewer. So one thing I use is Google Translate when I am trying to get them to learn to write...
- What To Do On A Snow Day Tomorrow
The other day I learned that my book has gone to be printed and will definitely be out on the 27th of this month. One of the topics I discuss is how to deal with "alternative days" such as snow ones. If you like what you see below, you might...
- My Post For Digital Learning Day
Tomorrow the Alliance for Excellent Education, that started Digital Learning Day, is posting my thoughts on Digital Learning Day which I am also posting below. Last year in my Digital Learning Day post for the Alliance for Excellent Education I...
- Stickies On A Virtual Wall
Just the other day I was at an in-service where the presenter suggested one technique where students could write one question on a wall and others could answer it. Then he said that during a test students could look at the wall for a minute or...