Jason Ohler – provided the MLTI Keynote presentation last night, he provided an introduction (from me at least) to Digital Story telling. I have seen the sites and even downloaded some PDF things on Digital Story telling, but I have not taken the time before, to see what it actually is about. Ohler’s keynote really… [Read more…]
July 25, 2010
Cover via Amazon I finished reading Teach Like a Champion (TLAC) a couple of days ago and needed to reflect a bit lot before actually writing this post. In my opinion the model presented in TLAC is very heavy into a Behaviorist, Teacher-centric model of teaching i.e. what has been characterized as the “Factory Method”. … [Read more…]
July 18, 2010
This post is about the frustrations I have felt as a Special Education teacher, Special Education student’s parent and having been involved in Special Education since 1989. It may not be this way everywhere, but from what I have seen and heard, what I have written below does bear some resemblance to reality, in far… [Read more…]
July 16, 2010
Since I decided to move back to WordPress last week, I have learned a lot about changing a blog over to a different blog host. In the process of this transfer, I ran into several questions about the physical setup and how they would relate to my goals for Resource Room 220. I found that… [Read more…]
July 11, 2010
Image via Wikipedia Re-post from Blogger This is part 2 of my book review on Doug Lemov’s “Teaching Like a Champion”, I will be looking at Chapter one, which is titled “Setting High Academic Expectations”. He starts out with the following statement “One consistent finding of academic research is that high expectations are the most… [Read more…]
December 17, 2009
This week I have been working with my three Special Education classes (a total of 22 kids) on learning Google Docs. This has been a great opportunity for me to observe my students behaviors when learning something new, but fairly similar to something they have used quite often previously. The learning curve, was much steeper… [Read more…]
November 28, 2009
Image by cuckove via Flickr This afternoon I had the experience of being a student again, one who had been doing something the wrong way for over 11 years and had to overcome all those bad habits and learn the correct way of doing something. It was not a fun experience, it actually was a… [Read more…]
This blog focuses on teaching from a Special Education Teacher's perspective. I plan to provide my observations and/or insights into Special Education, English Language Arts, the help students receive in my Resource Room, pedagogical ideas and integrating technology/Web2.0 tools into the classroom.
My views have been molded by my experiences as a parent of a Special Education Student, a retired Coastie, teaching in a Special Purpose Private School and a Public School system.
July 29, 2010
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