I'm sorry, but I am now student teaching, and because from here on, names are mentioned, real situations are talked about, and things that I would not want publicly talked about if it was me on the talked about end rather than the talking end, I'm going to have the rest of my entries as "Friends Only". If you want me to add you as a friend, email ( Read more... )

01 July 2005
Methods

I really enjoyed the Urban Classroom presentation although I would have liked to have had a teacher with many years experience as well as a relatively new teacher to discuss the changes and such things.  But overall it was a good presentation.

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30 June 2005

Methods

Discussing the Assessment class we had in core, the phrase  “Assessment informs instruction” came up.  I thought the hints Larry gave us about how to make this work made a lot of sense.  Give quizzes, short ones, early on, not a lot of points, to help assess ourselves in doing assessment.  We can ( Read more... )

29 June 05
Methods

The section on Questioning Techniques was what stuck in my mind the most.  It was one of those areas that I had not thought about before ARC.  The questions ( Read more... )

28 June 2005
Methods
Larry and Chris

The first thing that comes to mind is the use of terminology.  It turned up in the micro-teaches as well as the class work.  In the micro-teaches we had terminology on both ends, with one person using “mnemonic” and another calling subtraction “take-away.”  Then ( Read more... )

27 June 2005
Methods
Larry Chiucarello
Ed Dorsett

I should have known better than to say I got all my work done in yesterday’s reflection.. For the first time, I totally missed an assignment, answering the questions on the Principles and Standards.  I whipped off ( Read more... )

24 June 2005
Methods
Larry Chiucarello
Chris Kafoglis

Well Friday made Thursday feel like the Fun House versus the Superman roller coaster.  It takes a lot more out of me than the core classes, but on the other hand the day just flies by.  I only go to the bathroom during breaks and ( Read more... )

Methods
23 June 05
Ed Dorsett
Larry Chiucarello

My first reaction to this class is “OMIGOD, my turtle died”, which is what my father’s cousin Hortense, my only adult working female I knew growing up.  She said that when something was totally more than she expected in some way, shape or form.  The class today was definitely that.  The ( Read more... )

21 June 2005
Introduction to Lesson Planning
Scott Dunn

In a way this session seemed like an alternative to Dr. Parris’s methods of classroom management.  Although this dealt more with how to write a lesson plan, the implementation is as much classroom management as the Classroom Management classes.  It was from an “non-entertainer” ( Read more... )

21 June 2005
Classroom Questions that Work
Sharen Lom

How to ask questions was something I had never even considered important.  I would never have thought to ask about questions, so to speak.  And although the pun was intended, this session made me realize that how you ask a question is important.  I would have thought that ( Read more... )