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I am teaching in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada. I've taught from grades 4 to 11 but right now my focus is on grade 9. Regardless of the grade level, they all get Choice Theory right from day one.
Hey, Amy! I don't know if you'll come back to see this, but I wonder where you are teaching. How lucky your students are that you are teaching them Choice Theory!
Love,
C. Wellen
Write your life with your students... we know it makes a difference. I hope you'll join a discussion of what you're trying in your classroom and how it helps students see a path towards their own writing. I'm learning beside my 12th graders. Join me!
Approximately 8 million students in grades 4-12 are reading below grade level. Limited literacy skills cause 3,000 students to drop out of high school every day.
Join this group to share challenges and solutions.
A discussion group on critical literacy as it is practiced and talked about in different spaces and places.
I recently had the opportunity to do a Writer's Workshop with a grade nine class at one of our local high schools. The majority of the students in the class I had taught when they were in grade four and grade five. By October of the first year I t...
I agree. I usually spend the first week teaching my classes about Dr. Glasser's basic needs and how it will be used in class.
I love using Diary of a Worm by Doreen Cronin for my lessons on voice.
I've just started Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin. Very interesting and I love the premise. So far so good. For a more "grown-up" read (if there is such a thing), I enjoyed World Without End by Ken Follett.
Learning Choice Theory, reading the books of Dr. William Glasser, especially Every Student Can Succeed and Choice Theory, which help teachers create classroom environments where students feel loved and respected and safe enough to make the mistake...
I have been collecting the qualities that my fellow educators believe make a great teacher. Any suggestions?
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I have been collecting the qualities that my fellow educators believe make a great teacher. Any suggestions?
Posted on April 8, 2009 at 1:15pm — 4 Comments
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"The existing standardized tests are so incredibly bogus that it is the height of impropriety for NCTE and other so-called professional organizations to pretend that tests exist "to identify learning needs, inform instruction, and monitor student ...
So far there has been no response from NCTE in any form since the postings on the website of the Washington Post. The bottom line remains:
NCTE has approved of a plan that calls for
(1) Explicit, systematic teaching of literacy as the only path.
(...
Approximately 8 million students in grades 4-12 are reading below grade level. Limited literacy skills cause 3,000 students to drop out of high school every day.
Join this group to share challenges and solutions.
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