World History
- Fcps Personalized Learning In-service
I am giving a hands on presentation at Fairfax County, VA's Advanced Academic Institute at South County HS from 8:30 - 11:30. If you work for FCPS and would like to sign up go into MyPLT and type in summer into the search box and the AAP courses...
- Personalizing Classroom Instruction - W&m Presentation
I am presenting at William and Mary's Leadership Academy for administrators and teacher leaders. The institute is based on John Hattie's beliefs (some of which you can see here). The goal is for the administrators to learn how they can lead...
- 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...
- How To Determine The Reading Level Of A Document
I am thinking ahead to next year and how I will use the reading tests I give my students at the beginning of the year. Since I have technology for them all my next goal is going to differentiate for them. I see differentiation as going two...
- Learning Through Spatial Organization
Any good teacher will tell you that students learn best when connecting items together rather than when learning one after the other. Thus studying vocab words by themselves is less effective than using them (as do my 4th grade daughters) to tell...
World History
Reading Comprehension & Learning Styles
At my school we are working on Tier 1, 2 and 3 learning which essentially asks the teacher to differentiate learning with your students who are not meeting all of your objectives.
Two main items that we are looking at are learning styles and reading comprehension. Sure we think we know our students after a year of being with them, but isn't most of it anecdotal. Next year I am going to talk to my department about having our students complete this learning style test (no login/password required).
Secondly I want our teachers to consider reading comprehension using this test (or similar ones later). Of course the hard part is once we know how learning style and reading comprehension the hard part is taking the information and putting it into action (more on that later).
- Fcps Personalized Learning In-service
I am giving a hands on presentation at Fairfax County, VA's Advanced Academic Institute at South County HS from 8:30 - 11:30. If you work for FCPS and would like to sign up go into MyPLT and type in summer into the search box and the AAP courses...
- Personalizing Classroom Instruction - W&m Presentation
I am presenting at William and Mary's Leadership Academy for administrators and teacher leaders. The institute is based on John Hattie's beliefs (some of which you can see here). The goal is for the administrators to learn how they can lead...
- 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...
- How To Determine The Reading Level Of A Document
I am thinking ahead to next year and how I will use the reading tests I give my students at the beginning of the year. Since I have technology for them all my next goal is going to differentiate for them. I see differentiation as going two...
- Learning Through Spatial Organization
Any good teacher will tell you that students learn best when connecting items together rather than when learning one after the other. Thus studying vocab words by themselves is less effective than using them (as do my 4th grade daughters) to tell...