This year I’m using a project-based approach to teach my eighth grade English class. The students are in the process of planning a multimedia site consisting of a blog, an audio podcast and a video podcast. Here’s of rough outline of how they’re doing it:
Entries from September 24th, 2007
Real Projects for Real Students
September 24th, 2007 · 4 Comments · Education, Lessons, Media Literacy, Projects, Technology
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Everything You Need to Know to Be a Great Teacher
September 22nd, 2007 · No Comments · Teaching
There are only three things needful for becoming a great teacher:
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Recommended Reading List for Junior High by Nancie Atwell
September 21st, 2007 · No Comments · Book Lists, Reading Recommendations, Teen Literacy
Nancie Atwell’s book The Reading Zone: How to Help Kids Become Skilled, Passionate, Habitual, Critical Readers is a manifesto for change in reading classrooms. She successfully argues that the key to reading instruction is to arrange our teaching so that students can engage in “frequent, voluminous, self-selected reading.” To help teachers develop classroom libraries of [...]
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