Lisa Busch's Blog – January 2013 Archive (3)

Click here to go to my AUP wordle.

An acceptable use policy (AUP) is a written policy of rules users must follow in order to use a network.  Often, the AUP is authored by an employer, and given to employees to sign in order to gain access to systems such as the computer system and internet, or an internal telephone system.  According to the National Education Association (NEA), an AUP should contain six important features.  (Note:  I located the AUP for both my district and my school.  For the purpose of this blog post, I…

Marzano and Bloom have both affected my teaching, and will continue to affect it in new ways.

The school where I teach has very specific requirements about posting our objectives (we call them learning targets) for every single lesson every day.  By doing so, our students know what they should be able to do by the end of the lesson, and this sets a good expectation for them.  Our learning targets are written as “I can” statements such as “I can investigate at least two reasons for…