Yesterday’s blog was a link to an article about the Net Generation student. But what about the Net Generation Teacher? I came across the blog Just Call Me Ms Frizzle. This blogger is a student teacher who blogs about a variety of education topics from her perspective of a future Science Teacher. It got me [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Pedagogy'
Teaching the Net Generation
March 8th, 2010 3 Comments
“Can you be a Rhodes Scholar and not read books? Did growing up digital produce the dumbest generation? Are screenagers multitasking, or do they have better acting working memory and better switching abilities than most?
They’re the first generation “bathed in bits,” and they’re lapping their parents in digital acquisition. The only other time we’ve see [...]
Tags: Net Generation
The future of online/internet based education?
February 9th, 2010 1 Comment
I am not sure where the future lies with online education, but it is clear that face-to-face instruction is going to continue to be supplemented and in some cases supplanted by online instruction.
Here is a 10 minue video clip that discusses some of these options that students have today. It should be a wake up [...]
Tags: online learning
What does YOUR principal do that exemplifies instructional leadership? Or not?
January 16th, 2010 18 Comments
In a few weeks I will have my first class with a fairly new group of students working on their school administration endorsements.
It got me thinking about instructional leadership? What is it? What is it NOT? What do you WISH they would do?
So let’s hear it from a few of you. What does YOUR principal [...]
Tags: instructional leadership · leadership for instruction · principals · school leaders
Reading aloud to students of all ages
January 5th, 2010 1 Comment
Education Week has a nice article on reading aloud to students. I fear the emphasis on standardized testing has resulted in many teachers cutting back on the time spent reading aloud to them.
Even when I taught 6th grade the highlight of our day was often reading to the students. We read many books throughout the [...]
Tags: reading · reading aloud
More calls for changes in teacher preparation
November 2nd, 2009 1 Comment
Colleges of Education are under fire……again!
The NYT is talking about it here;
Here is an excerpt for if you don’t have time to read the article:
Our best universities have, paradoxically, typically looked down their noses at education, as if it were intellectually inferior. The result is that the strongest students are often in colleges that have [...]
Tags: teacher preparation
How do you feel about the current trend of using so many paraprofessionals in the classroom?
September 15th, 2009 4 Comments
With budgets the way they are these days, the trend of using paraprofessionals in the classroom has increased considerably. Special education is often the area where we see the biggest use of paraprofessionals.
Over at The Stock Mark Report, I linked to a blog article describing a new “co-teaching” program for undergraduate education majors. Instead of [...]
Tags: paraprofessionals · student teachers
Do laptops for every child threaten the traditional role of the teacher?
September 8th, 2009 3 Comments
I hope your Labor Day was relaxing or exciting - whichever one you needed the most!!!! We are back in the saddle again here.
I always like what Scott McLeod over at Dangerously Irrelevant has to say.
In one of his latest posts he reviews one of the current books out that reviews 1 - 1 laptop initiatives.
In [...]
Tags: computers · laptops · students. 1 - 1 initiatives · teachers · technology
The Quiet Professionals
September 3rd, 2009 No Comments
I’ll never forget two teacher heroes that made a difference in my career. I was fresh out of college and assigned to a third grade classroom in a working class neighborhood outside of Dayton, Ohio. My two new colleagues were Nancy Kinnison and Vivian Ekberg. Nancy and Vivian were veteran teachers with a strong background [...]
Tags: heroes · Students · teachers · teachers that make a difference
The Singing Teacher
September 2nd, 2009 No Comments
Teacher Hero story submitted by Wendy Young
I was fresh out of graduate school and landed a position as a school counselor/social worker for an alternative education program in Holt, Michigan. Susie Gallagher was one of the teachers.
Her love and kindness for her students knew no bounds. More than anything, she believed in her students…each and [...]
