Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
The series continues...
Research has shown that people generally attribute success at any given task to one of four causes:
1. Ability – seemingly helpful, but what if you don't believe that you have the requisite skill? In this case, students might sabotage their own success!
2. Effort - what we're hoping for ...
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Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
Another post in the continuing series of posts on Classroom Instruction that Works: Research-Based Strategies for Increasing Student Achievement...
Generalities from the research on Summarizing:
1. To effectively summarize, students must delete some information, substitute some information, and keep some information.
2. To effectively delete, substitute, and keep information, students must analyze the ...
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Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
Most of the rest of the book is a series of chapters which takes one category of strategies at a time. Several chapters have two very similar categories (or, depending on how you look at it, one category that deserves two names). Here is the list of the chapters/categories:
Identifying similarities ...
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Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
Here begins a series of blog articles that summarize, chapter by chapter, Classroom Instruction that Works: Research-Based Strategies for Increasing Student Achievement by Robert Marzano, et al.
My intention in embarking on this project is to more fully digest the book, examine how I might be able to apply the findings ...
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Wednesday, May 30th, 2007
The following list is from How to Really Parent Your Child, by Ross Campbell. I read this book with my own son in mind, but it's certainly something that can apply to our role as teachers, as well.
Very thought provoking and challenging...
Truths about parenting
1. Our children are, after all, children.
2. Therefore, they ...
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Sunday, December 3rd, 2006
As teachers, sometimes we are more in a position to define our nation's beginnings than others in society. This is particularly true of teachers who teach American History (5th, 8th, and 10th grades).
Some Christians (teachers or not) are tempted to define the U.S. as a "Christian nation", and take this ...
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