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Think-Pair-Share (Lyman, 1981): An Equity Pedagogical Best Practice to Increase and Vary Student Participation in the Classroom

Think-Pair-Share (Lyman, 1981): An Equity Pedagogical Best Practice to Increase and Vary Student Participation in the Classroom

This is a three-step paired cooperative procedure created by *Dr. Frank Lyman in 1981. During step one, each member individually and silently thinks about a question posed by the teacher. During the second step, two members are paired to exchange and discuss their responses. During step three, each member may share his response, his partner's response, a… Continue

Added by Richard D. Solomon, Ph.D. on August 5, 2009 at 5:00am — No Comments

Urban Screens and Media Facades

The video related to the picture below, along with a few comments and links, can be found on my recent post:

Revisiting Urban Screens: 555 Kubik....

Wouldn't this be fun to do with a school building?!

Added by Lynn Marentette on August 4, 2009 at 6:40pm — No Comments

Weekly Update: July 27 - August 2

Check out these interesting blogs...

Added by Shawn Roner on August 4, 2009 at 11:15am — No Comments

Communication and Collaboration online Project

I posted this in the discussion forum but it should have been posted here.

I have taken this course and am now sharing my reflection about the project plan.

Tech330.37

Ruby Stradford Johnson

stradford_johnson@yahoo.com

Beaufort, SC

August 3, 2009

Session 6: Part 3 Reflection Paper

My online collaborative project for the course is entitled “Virtually Speaking: What is Success and how do you get It.? It spans across curriculum which… Continue

Added by Ruby Stradford Johnson on August 4, 2009 at 10:23am — No Comments

Internet resources for educators working with visually impaired students

3rd post in a series examining web based resources for educators that work with Special Needs students

Just as with my recent posts focused on ADD & ADHD, and Autism & PDD, it is not difficult to find… Continue

Added by Kelly Walsh on August 4, 2009 at 9:30am — No Comments

What are Equity Pedagogical Methods and Why Should They Be Modeled by Mentors and Deployed by Teachers?

Before we define equity pedagogy, let’s share some relevant research.

There have been a number of important studies which indicate that a teacher's perceptions of students can influence their teaching. In 1968, * Robert Rosenthal and Lenore Jacobson published a famous study, Pygmalion in the Classroom, which had profound effects upon the practice of teaching. In their study, they provided teachers in an elementary school with undocumented information about several students in their… Continue

Added by Richard D. Solomon, Ph.D. on August 4, 2009 at 6:31am — No Comments

It's more than just apparently suicidal tricks... it's an outlook on life.

I just witnessed a group of teens and young adults who said, with a straight face and all the seriousness in their heart that they could muster, that if they did not figure out a way to improve over their performance of last year, they'd be toast. They knew they needed to grow, adapt, change, evolve and break new ground... for if they didn't, they knew someone else, with more hunger in the belly, would come along and take from them their, well... everything. Their future, their… Continue

Added by Alan Sitomer on August 4, 2009 at 6:30am — No Comments

Picture Power in Books

Pictures are very powerful and when used with language and writing, work to activate both the right and left sides of the brain for a whole learning experience.

Big Universe

Added by Bernice Wonderly on August 3, 2009 at 1:07pm — No Comments

New Parent Engagement Blog & Book

I've recently begun a new blog called Engaging Parents In School: Going Beyond Parent "Involvement".

It's designed to support my book that will be published in the fall, Building Parent Engagement In Schools.

This article, Parent Involvement or Parent Engagement, gives a preview of the… Continue

Added by Larry Ferlazzo on August 3, 2009 at 10:25am — 1 Comment

Do our kids not have much to teach us about how to teach them?

Working on my listening skills has probably been one of the best pieces of PD advice I have ever tried to take to heart.

The fact is, we teachers, we kinda come to class to talk. To impart. To flow outwardly. And in the chaos that is a teaching day, with hundreds of students coming at you from hundreds of angles at a hundred miles an hour seeking hundreds of answers (from "May I go to the bathroom?" to "Do you think Shakespeare really wrote all those plays?" to "Can I bring… Continue

Added by Alan Sitomer on August 3, 2009 at 6:30am — No Comments

Art lesson plans for middle school

When I learn how to use this...I will start posting ideas that have worked for me. Currently I'm thinking about something fun with anamorphosis art. Any ideas or links would be appreciated.

Added by CA York on August 3, 2009 at 12:06am — No Comments

Weekly Update: July 27 - August 2

Here are a few blogs I enjoyed this week. Check 'em out.

Added by Shawn Roner on August 2, 2009 at 9:26pm — No Comments

Join me for 3 days of live blogging at the Integrated Technology Symposium hosted by The Urban School in San Francisco

Join me for 3 days of live blogging at the Integrated Technology Symposium hosted by The Urban School in San Francisco

I am participating in this year’s Center for Innovative Teaching: Integrated Technology Symposium hosted by The Urban School in San Francisco. I will be participating in all the sessions and will be Live Blogging them as the “symposium blogger”. Please join us during these sessions through the live blog links and join in the conversation. These links along with… Continue

Added by Chris Bigenho on August 2, 2009 at 6:52pm — No Comments

Wikis and blogs

Currently I sifted through the blog discussions and links on this site. It was a little overwhelming, but if I do blogs, it looks like there will be plenty of info and organization. I caught up on the the Beginner 2.0 wiki series with Eluminate and took 3 pages of notes. Wikis are a lot like webpages. They remind me of the editing and proofreading website I made:http://sites.google.com/site/editinghelpsite/ which has the same setup. I talked to our tech teacher at school and neither are being… Continue

Added by Leyton Roberts on August 1, 2009 at 2:47pm — No Comments

Becoming a 21st century teacher

Here goes! This is my first attempt at blogging.

Background first. I have been teaching since 1991. At Easter in 1998 I got the opportunity to come out of the classroom and work with the parents in my area. So for more than 10 years that's what I have been doing and I loved it. Unfortunately, due to the economic downturn, that position has been taken from my schools and I am going back to the classroom.

In Sept I will be teaching 11/12 year olds. Initially I hated the idea but now I… Continue

Added by Marie Doherty on August 1, 2009 at 1:43pm — No Comments

Not Only Do I Not Know What I am Doing, Neither Does Anyone

TIME magazine just published this story called Morning the Death of Handwriting. It made me realize that the more deeply I think about my job as a teacher, the more acutley aware I become that I really can't say for sure that I am doing the right thing -- or teaching the right things -- in my classroom.

Sure, my state has standards -- and our nation is currently developing… Continue

Added by Alan Sitomer on August 1, 2009 at 6:30am — No Comments

Next Generation of Web Search Engines - SpaceTime3D

SpaceTime3D allows you to see your searches. After you type in your search term, you will see pictures of the web pages for your search. You can shuffle through these pages to make finding the information you are looking for easier. The SpaceTime Browser which is a download and SpaceTime3D, which is a web version (no download) of our Visual Search interface available at http://www.spacetime.com. We're proud to announce that The SpaceTime Browser… Continue

Added by Ajaan Rob Hatfield on July 31, 2009 at 8:16pm — No Comments

Five Best Ways to Use Your Economic Stimulus Payment

this is funny. Take it as the all-American approach to spreading humor about difficult situations...

Some time this year, we taxpayers will receive an Economic Stimulus payment. This is a very exciting new program. I will explain it using the Q and A format:

Q. What is an Economic Stimulus… Continue

Added by Jacqui Murray on July 31, 2009 at 1:33pm — No Comments

Critical Thinking and Social Media Technology

With the emergence of social media technology in the classroom, teachers are finding innovative ways to promote student learning. As educators become more sophisticated in terms of utilizing Internet and mobile-based technologies to share information, they are taking advantage of new and exciting opportunities to improve their teaching practice. One particular area of interest to me is the way in which this sort of… Continue

Added by Shawn Roner on July 31, 2009 at 10:00am — No Comments

How can Theatre teachers use Web 2.0 Tools?

I am wondering what Web 2.0 tools can be integrated into the theatre classroom. This summer I have been working on teaching for film materials. Film acting teaching and film studies teaching seems to be a natural integration of Web 2.0! But what about theatre? It is sad that an art which is so collaborative can be seem to fit into this collaboration web world!

I developed a Comedy Writing Project that could be used in the theatre classroom, but it is really more of a film project.… Continue

Added by Carrie Vlaming on July 31, 2009 at 9:20am — 7 Comments