Teaching on the Learning CurveTeaching on the Learning Curvean ongoing diary of my experiences in teaching and how I learn from my students
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Hillary on NCLB?
2007-11-28 02:46:00 I’m working on a paper for my education class on the No Child Left Behind policy. I’ve been reading lots of policy wonk stuff on it but occasionally like to see someone talk about it. Senator Clinton does so very well. She knows her stuff… More About: Hillary , NCLB
totally inspiring?
2007-10-20 05:52:00 Geoffrey Canada and the Harlem Children’s Zone. And, A profile on him here. More About: Ally
Art teacher suspended for showing art??
2007-10-18 15:43:00 This article in the NYTimes really shows how societies priorities are really screwed up: Museum Field Trip Deemed Too Revealing Michael Stravato for The New York Times Sydney McGee, a teacher in Frisco, Tex., led fifth graders through European and contemporary galleries of the Dallas Museum ... More About: Art education , Teacher
Teaching Philosophy
2007-09-12 02:55:00 Philosophy of Teaching Joel Gargano May 1999 My grounding for teaching art comes from my compelling interest in the visual and conceptual mechanics of art and art processes and my ongoing fascination with the sensory experience of reality. I believe it is important as a student of art to be perceptually aware of the human and physical worlds ... More About: Art education
Chapter 2 - Curriculum Components, Identifying Student Art Progress
2007-09-05 03:52:00 So, this second chapter of the text I’m reading for Art Ed starts dealing with ideas of design elements to introduce to your elementary art students. It begins by stating that there’s no right or wrong way in art - simply the student’s individual way. Of course, we’ve all had art teachers who ... More About: Student , Classes , Curriculum , Art education , Progress
Chancellor of the NYC Public Schools
2007-08-31 02:29:00 “The most important thing in the quality of a student’s education is their teacher” - Joel Klein More About: Schools , Public , Cello , Chan , Ancel
Art: Its Meaning and Significance - Article comments
2007-08-27 20:23:00 art-its-meaning-and-significance-article. pdf This article (above) is sort-of a primer about art as it exists in its forms in institutions and communities. As well, it breaks down art mediums into categories. It discusses the role of the artist and art student and how children perceive the world with their various senses and then how ... More About: Article , Comments , Classes , Art education , Meaning
fall returns
2007-08-27 19:15:00 It’s started - fall classes and I’m reminded already from my first day in class just how difficult it’s going to be to work second shift (1AM) and get up at 6:30 AM, get my wife to work and my daughter to day-care and myself to class by 8. Nonetheless, I have 4 classes to ... More About: Classes , Fall
Newt Gingrich on Detroit students?
2007-08-09 05:42:00 Wow, I wonder if Newt has even ever been to Detroit ? Here’s his take on the Detroit schools ... More About: Students , Newt Gingrich , Gingrich
Obama on teacher compensation
2007-07-11 06:19:00 Barack Obama is endorsing merit pay for teachers. His general idea is to create incentives for teachers and districts to innovate their teaching methods to improve student performance. How this will be substantiated for qualifying for the pay is another matter that’s not detailed. Andrew Sullivan blogs some push-back on the idea ... More About: Art education , Teacher , Compensation , Teac
farewell (the BT project)
2007-06-13 00:59:00 BT and I parted ways a couple weeks before the school year ended for the year. I shook his hand, wished him the best and left feeling that everything I had given him could be either lost to him or might have created a kernel in his mind that would resurrect and grow much ... More About: Project , Farewell , Fare , Well
Schools Reconsider Laptops as Educational Tools
2007-05-11 11:58:00 but not all technology, they were quick to point out… ... More About: Tools , Laptops , Schools , Educational , Side
Cops, presidents and agents - social studies breakdown
2007-05-11 11:34:00 BT and I met tuesday. He had a worksheet from science class which was a few paragraphs about the caves on Mars and then corresponding questions on the back for him to answer about the reading. I asked him if he was interested in the topic of the caves on Mars or if ... More About: Social , Studies , Agents , Tutoring , Cops
Arts Education recognized this year
2007-05-02 11:30:00 Maybe arts education is making a comeback? I like this story… Music Teacher wins 2007 National Teacher of the Year Award “It’s essential for schools to offer classes like art or music and physical education because they are the only thing that motivates some students to come back to school day after day. If you ... More About: Education , Arts , Art education , Ducati
Back on?with eyeglasses
2007-05-02 07:14:00 BT and I met today after the meeting last week with his mother and step-dad. Just a recap on that meeting. We all agreed that BT needed more than just school or more than just tutoring in order to get back on track with his learning and reading problems. His mother vowed ... More About: Tutoring , Back , Glass , Glasses , Eyeglasses
Question #13
2007-04-27 10:33:00 Question#13: What are the best ways to help students understand what they need to know and be able to do? Well, knowing the answer to this will make you a good teacher. You are a good teacher if you can communicate effectively enough to the student on any number of levels. Only one of these I’d ... More About: Question , Questions , Answers , Quest
Do Schools kill creativity??
2007-04-26 11:39:00 A great presentation on why we stifle creativity in kids… From the great forum on ideas called the TED Conference. More About: Schools , Creativity , Kill
6000 high school drop outs a day in the US?
2007-04-26 09:13:00 …and $60 million to start a nationwide dialog about it. More About: School , High School , High , The U , Drop
Persistence
2007-04-26 08:37:00 Before I post my final answers to questions 13 and 14, I’d like to talk about my tutoring experience from tuesday which I think I can say might influence my interactions with students to come in the future… BT’s mother and step-father came in to speak to me about BT’s future and our work together. ... More About: Tutoring , Persistence
Question #11 and 12
2007-04-25 21:48:00 Question #11: What approaches would I like to explore in the future? In terms of my current work in tutoring reading comprehension and literacy as well as my major content area of art, I’d like to integrate the Web into learning as much as possible. It’s amazing to me just how much stuff is out ... More About: Question , Questions , Classes , Answers , Quest
Question #9 and #10
2007-04-25 21:48:00 Question #9: What approaches have worked for my students this semester? Well, not many but see my answers for the post for Question #5 Question #10: How do I know? (#9) See as well my answers for the post for Question#5. More About: Question , Questions , Classes , Answers , Quest
Question #5
2007-04-25 21:47:00 Question# 5: What are some ways for finding out about students? knowledge, skills and motivations that I have found helpful and/or that I would like to explore in the future? With tutoring I think you have a privileged opportunity with your student - one because it’s only one student at a time so you can focus ... More About: Question , Questions , Classes , Answers , Quest
Question #6 and #7
2007-04-25 21:47:00 Question# 6: In what ways have I and can I bring students? backgrounds into my teaching? Question# 7: Why is this important to my teaching? (#6) Answer: see the answer for #5. But to put more on it I’d say I’m just generally interested in other people and where they came from and how different they ... More About: Question , Questions , Classes , Answers , Quest
Question #8
2007-04-25 21:47:00 Question #8: What have I learned about literacy this semester? Working with a student with really serious reading problems has forced me to break down reading into its most individual and sequential parts and processes. Since it’s just automatic with me - these are learning components I’ve rarely ever thought of. Since I ... More About: Question , Questions , Tutoring , Answers , Literacy
Question #4
2007-04-25 21:46:00 #4 What have I learned about students this semester? About BT I’ve learned that once a student falls behind it’s very difficult to catch up. I’ve also recognized that teachers can and will give up on a student even if they won’t say that. When they have one-third of their students who are failing ... More About: Question , Questions , Classes , Answers , Quest
Question #3
2007-04-25 21:30:00 Question#3: What do I know about students? In terms of my tutoring experiences this year - not a lot at first. I wrote about this uncertainty on exactly what my student’s problem was with reading and what to do about it in several journal entries. Here’s a few comments I made about what ... More About: Question , Questions , Classes , Answers , Quest
Washington School Retirement
2007-04-24 05:11:00 My mother went to Wash ington School in St. Joseph in 1951. 56 years later she’s working and about to retire from the County Administration in the same building she went to kindergarten in! It’s a remarkable circle of events that has led her to this point. The building was in disrepair until Whirlpool ... More About: Retirement , Retire
14 Questions:
2007-04-22 18:10:00 As I’ve said before this blog was created as an idea for the execution and completion of a final project for my current teacher education class. The final project was given with 14 questions to answer: Who am I as a teacher? How is my teaching affected by my experiences? What do I know about students? What ... More About: Questions , Classes , Quest
The Engine of Teaching
2007-04-22 17:21:00 My tutoring experience which has consisted of about two hours a week with the same student (BT) left me wanting more. More time to understand the depths of his reading and writing difficulties. More time to find out the history of these problems and thusly - his history as a young person (coming from a ... More About: Teaching , Tutoring , Engine , Teac
Violent student writing
More articles from this author:2007-04-20 06:40:00 I’ll continue with the beginnings of my tutoring experiences on my next postings but for now I want to interrupt with a word about writing - specifically about student writing and how as teachers you could recognized a troubled student through his/her writing such as the much publicized writing of the Virginia Tech shooter this ... More About: Education , Writing , Student , Viol , Violent 1, 2 |
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