November 9, 2007

Theory in Practice

Tuesday night I sensed a great deal of interest (of course) in what you can expect when you are student teaching, interviewing for postions and and teaching. I had an experience today I want to share w/you. The host teacher (and department chair) whose classroom I visit at Liverpool High School told me that in [...]

November 9, 2007

Templates

Hello, Everyone,
Here are the templates for our “sequence of instruction,” as I promised.  Feel free to get in touch with me if you have any problems.
Calendar Template
Backward Design Template Again
Ray H.
Li Li, I seemed to have misplaced the paper with your e-mail address on them, so if you still want me to e-mail you, then post your [...]

November 9, 2007

A YA book of interest…

Although I haven’t read it, I saw today a YA novel called Wilderness by one of my favorite novelists, Roddy Doyle.  I know nothing about this book aside from what is said on Amazon, but Doyle is one of the most exciting contemporary Irish writers.  You might know the film about a Dublin rock band [...]

November 9, 2007

Articles for Publication and the November Issue of EJ

I encourage you to send me an attachment w/the draft of your article so that you have some feedback from me before we meet again next week. I will be emailing responses to those of you who turned in hard copies today, tomorrow and Sunday.
If you have made further progress w/your essay and I [...]

November 9, 2007

Readings for 11/13

Hi class,
Last Tuesday I wrote down the readings due for next week and I can’t find it anywhere! Could someone post what chapters we need to read in BEERs? I already read Christenbury, but was there anything else? Thank you and please excuse my almost-the-end-of-the-semester-disorganization.
-Mandy