Reading the article “9 Elephants in the (Class)Room That Should ‘Unsettle’ Us” brought to light many of the issues present in our classrooms and in the education system as a whole. It discusses everything from the obsession with grades to forgetting content after tests. These are the two elephants that stood out to me and … Continue reading Addressing the Elephants

In this last edition of my learning project posts, I will describe how I would set up my literacy circles and have them run. First, I would have a list of three or four novels that I would like my students to study. I will give students a slip of paper to write their vote... Continue Reading →

The articles we were assigned this week were packed full of information and very interesting to read. As I was reading, I was also thinking how I relate to the things being stated in the article and why they appealed so well to me. “My Generation Essay: Redefining Education” is my absolute favorite article we read this … Continue reading Learning.

In my last post about literacy circles, I discussed a few different types of literacy circles that can be used, the structured type and the book club. For each teacher, it will take quite a bit of time and planning to get literacy circles set up just the right way for your particular class. Some... Continue Reading →

As most of you know I do not plan to teach lower elementary grades. In fact, I hope to teach no lower grade than fourth. I just have more of a connection with this age group and I love to see their developing brains making connections for themselves and beginning to become awesome problem-solvers and... Continue Reading →

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This has been another rough week of not feeling well and trying to play catch up on homework and reading. Although this is our final week of IMWAYR posts and class, I truly hope to find time to continue to read from the list that I chose for my challenge and to post reviews of... Continue Reading →

In the last post about literature circles, I touched on what literature circles are and what the roles are within the circle. I also included some information about how teachers can customize the roles themselves and tips about how to set up literature circles. Since that first post, I have done about four hours worth... Continue Reading →

A date of a document creation The first parameter by which Google determines the freshness is the date on which the document was created. It also can be the day when the document is found by Google for the first time, in other words, when Googlebot indexes a certain document or finds a link to …