Seminar on Reading Strategies

For those of you who are in my seminar, here is the link to the supplemental information that I showed in class tonight.
For those of you who were not in my seminar–and would like to find out about sociograms, collaborative annotation and Inspiration–I still encourage you to check it out.  This is a post on [...]

More thoughts on Atwell’s Afterward

I think Suzanne has raised some great points about the student – teacher relationship in her post on Atwell’s afterward.  I took away so much from this conclusion to the Beers text, including:

We must embrace technology in our classrooms, and we must NOT be nervous about our “lack” of understanding.  Our kids will know how [...]

Atwell’s Afterword

It seems that Nancie Atwell summed up the most important lesson I learned in my classes this semester:  as teachers we must provide a model of student learning, one that allows for an apprenticeship between student and teacher.  I wrote and presented on this idea for Kennedy’s class and most of you heard me speak [...]

Class on Tuesday

“Learning needs to be hands on and when teachers tell you about their class in the beginning of the school year it sounds like it will bo so cool. But then they still teach the same things over and over and they talk and you listen. That’s it.” –Cortland HS student today
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Dear Teachers, our agenda [...]