I have been using OmniFocus since January and it has made a significant difference in how I feel about keeping on top of my workload! Below are my first two posts about OmniFocus: OMNIFOCUS – IS TAMING MY PRODUCTIVITY PROBLEM OMNIFOCUS AS A LESSON PLANNER Does this mean that I get everything done when I… [Read more…]
January 23, 2010
My 5 most popular posts this week: 1. DO SPECIAL EDUCATION STUDENTS REALLY NEED TO HAVE GRADES? 2. WEBSPIRATION – MIND MAPPING TOOL 3. OMNIFOCUS – IS TAMING MY PRODUCTIVITY PROBLEM 4. OMNIFOCUS AS A LESSON PLANNER 5. STEPS IN THE IEP PROCESS – HOW MANY? My post on Webspiration had been in the top… [Read more…]
December 19, 2009
Special Education programs are not cheap and the needs of our students are more varied and yes more expensive than most regular education programs. As budget money becomes tighter and politicians, along with everyone else, put more pressures to shrink the budgets at the local, state and federal levels, when do they start looking closely… [Read more…]
December 12, 2009
Image via Wikipedia This is going to be a bit different than my usual blog entries. Being a Special Education Teacher can be a very stressful job and many of us are so busy taking taking care of others, that we don’t take care of ourselves. We attempt to do many of the following things:… [Read more…]
December 9, 2009
I was going through Google Reader this morning and started reading Education On The Plate’s latest blog entry Please, Please, Please, Don’t Call My Mom It made me really stop and think about what really happens when we do call home sometimes. It opens up a whole barrel of worms (not just a can). I… [Read more…]
December 5, 2009
Image via Wikipedia I was going through my gReader this evening and was reading an entry at the Reality 101 Blog. It is a good read and something that I needed to read tonight. I started to write a comment and it has turned into words that I don’t want to loose, as I have… [Read more…]
November 23, 2009
Image by opimentas via Flickr I will get a bit good natured ribbing for writing this one from the other teachers, but that’s okay – I have broad shoulders . Today we rated the District Writing Prompt and I actually rather enjoyed doing it. Weird huh! We used Maine’s 4-8 former MEA scoring rubric to… [Read more…]
November 23, 2009
My wife saw the title of this post and said “You are getting old and crotchety.” I have found the SPED community online and in the blogosphere is much more in tune with Special Education law, why an IEP is important and what makes a quality IEP, whether they are parents, educators or other interested… [Read more…]
November 19, 2009
I attended a training on The Nuts and Bolts of Transition Planning for Special Education students, that was sponsored by the Central Maine Inclusive Schools (CMIS) a few weeks ago. It was a very good training and I got to catch up with a lot of educators from other schools who I have not seen… [Read more…]
November 19, 2009
A couple of weeks ago I was reading my gReader and saw this site (I originally couldn’t remember who posted it and link to the original review – If you read below it was a member of my PLN – Bill Chapman – sorry I didn’t get it right the first time) being reviewed. I… [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.
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