Guided practice is a big teaching piece for teachers in writing lesson plans. In essence you are showing them your mind and the way you solve problems. You model the way a problem comes to a solution.
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If you haven’t seen this yet, it’s quite amazing. A guy had the discipline and patience to take pictures of himself every day for 17 years. The result is an amazing stop action “flip book” style show of his receding hair. He doesn’t age much in the face but the hair you really notice. Stuff [...]
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If you care to view the goals and progress of Postcards from the Funny Farm in September of 2008, I’ve published a summary here.
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Sounds morbid huh? Not to me. I see it as a positive, self-improvement mantra. Most people have seen a dead person like a grandparent or friend in a casket at a funeral. We know they don’t look real. I remember my grandfathers both looked like wax. It is not their [...]
“The greatest tragedy in life is not death; the greatest tragedy takes place when our talents and capabilities are underutilized and allowed to rust while we are living.” AMMA
I added this quote to my crazy quotes page recently. It’s getting pretty serious there now, I have 40 that cycle through randomly. This new one [...]
This step is great because you get to take kids “explicitly” through steps to get the answers. As you do so you are giving them the empowerment to score high on the Standards Tests or any other test they take.
You devise a list of steps, no more than 5, helping them to solve the particular [...]
I’ve loved this band for years. Their guitarist, David Gilmour, has some of the best riffs and chops I am yet to hear. I’ve seen them live twice back in the early 90’s. Yes people were passing joints around and offering smal squares of LSD to put on your tongue. I was in my early [...]
When times are low, how can you avoid an internal depression. After all, it is much worse than an economic one.
GPS is something cool when you are looking for a new location. I’ve seen some that talk to you … very cool technology. But have you heard of GPS solving murder mysteries? How about catching a rapist? These are things that have happened recently as a result of GPS technology. There are several ways to [...]
In EDI, “Learning Objective” is the beginning of the lesson. It should be stated clearly and the kids should show evidence of understanding by repeating it back and then answering as random non-volunteers. I usually write this on the board and explain any new or difficult words. Then I say it and have the class repeat it. You are establishing the goal of the lesson.
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