Image via Wikipedia Last Sunday, I replaced the front storm door. Before I go any further I want everyone to know that I am not a carpenter! During during this 6 hour ordeal, I got frustrated, tired, swore a bit, walked away, swore some more and then eventually “goober carpentered” it together. If I had… [Read more…]
July 24, 2010
This has been a very good week, I created my first website (for my classroom, I will be tweaking it until school starts) better that website than my blog. Getting over that “fear” I had about creating a website is very satisfying to me and using Google Sites was extremely easy. Maybe now I will… [Read more…]
July 21, 2010
Today has been a totally amazing day. I crossed off one the most dreaded items on my TODO list today – create my first Webpage. Of all the things I have done in the tech side of my life, the one thing I haven’t done is complete a working webpage. Why? I have had way… [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 18, 2010
This is an updated version of my blog from November 4, 2009 when I created the Resource Room 220 blog. I have gone back and rewrote it for clarity AND to refocus the post on why I named my blog Resource Room 220. Why have I decided to create a blog named Resource Room 220? … [Read more…]
July 18, 2010
Today my blog Resource Room 220 officially re-0pens. Resource Room 220 on WordPress.com has been in “sleep” mode since March 3rd, but actually had almost as many visitors during that “down” time as my regular blog that I updated on a consistent basis. In my What Did I Learn While Moving Back to WorkdPress.com blog… [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 14, 2010
Image via CrunchBase I have been changing back to my WordPress.com blog and have made several changes as a part of this switch. The final major piece of the puzzle is what I have as the blog’s name. I chose Resource Room 220 because I wanted it to originally focus on Special Education and 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…]
July 11, 2010
From RESOURCE ROOM 220 Re-post from Blogger I tell my students that if you write about (reflect on) what you read that you will understand and maybe remember what you read better. After all the hype and hyperbole, I decided to read Teach Like A Champion by Doug Lemov. I plan to do a series… [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 26, 2010
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