Urban Conference: Birmingham, AL

01/24/2011

B5 reluctant readers:

Urban Conference: Birmingham, AL

01/24/2011

A2 content lit strat:

Urban Conference: Birmingham, AL

01/24/2011

A 5 diff write intruct:

Urban Conference: Birmingham, AL

01/24/2011

B2 trouble with textbooks:

Can We Just Stop Obsessing About Testing?

01/24/2011

My good friend, Roger Passman declares, “Good Teaching Takes Care of Bad Testing”. In the midst of our current testing frenzy, we have lost sight of what really is important, great teaching. Preparing kids to take a test is not teaching; it’s training. We are beginning to see the damage that the testing obsession policies have had in the last ten years. Reports about college students who do not develop critical thinking skills and workers who can’t problem solve.
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What About Homework?

01/19/2011

I am not sure when it happened. As a mom, I am increasingly stunned that our children are expected to know calculus by first grade. Well maybe that is an exaggeration. When we assign too much homework, the positive effects where off. Worksheets, endless problems, and textbook questions turn our kids off to learning rather than engage and develop skills.
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Hot Literacy Topics for 2011

01/10/2011

This is International Reading Association’s List of “Hot Issues” for 2011. I am always relieved to see adolescent literacy on the “hot list”. The adolescent literacy as a concentration in the reading world is still relatively young so when focus is granted, I feel that our teenage readers are getting the attention and resources that they need.
http://www.reading.org/Libraries/Publications/pg6_Chart.pdf

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