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The First Howdy Dewar News Crew The next year, my role changed a bit. Instead of being a resource teacher, I was back with a homeroom. This time my homeroom was going to be a self-... Read all pages in this resource, starting from the beginning |
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2 years 30 weeks ago |
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Using Digital Projects with "At-Risk" Third Graders “Last year I was not smart. This year I am. I don’t know why but I like it.” This quote was written by one of my third graders in his... Read all pages in this resource, starting from the beginning |
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2 years 27 weeks ago |
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Saying Goodbye and Welcoming a New Crew Throughout the year, I saw my vision of a class of below level students taking on the personality and abilities of a gifted class emerge. Yes, the... Read all pages in this resource, starting from the beginning |
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2 years 30 weeks ago |
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A Smattering of Digital Storytelling In addition to the news broadcasts, we were also putting together some digital stories whenever the curriculum warranted it. We started off the year... Read all pages in this resource, starting from the beginning |
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2 years 29 weeks ago |
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The Year Before In August of 2007, I began teaching Early Intervention Program (EIP) classes. The students in this program are students who are performing below... Read all pages in this resource, starting from the beginning |
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2 years 28 weeks ago |
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The Year-Long Projects Our biggest classroom project became the Howdy Dewar News, Dewar Elementary School’s first daily news broadcast, which my students created and... Read all pages in this resource, starting from the beginning |
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2 years 29 weeks ago |
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Tinkering and Exploration "If you are willing to give up control and let students be in the driver seat, a lot of times they're the ones who can help lead you to the right... |
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2 years 30 weeks ago |
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Learning the Art of Persuasion: from YouTube to Formal Debate Disingenuous persuasive arguments drive me crazy. Persuasion for the sake of a grade as opposed to something that matters to one’s life and well... Read all pages in this resource, starting from the beginning |
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1 year 15 weeks ago |
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Implementation Day One:Students took the pre-test, Prompt A. I gave them 15 minutes to write their essay and these seemed like the right amount of time. Doing this... Read all pages in this resource, starting from the beginning |
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1 year 15 weeks ago |
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Designing the Module I designed this module with Rebecca Itow as part of the Participatory Assessment Network, a project headed by Dan Hickey and his team of... Read all pages in this resource, starting from the beginning |
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1 year 15 weeks ago |
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Assessment Data The module was bracketed by pre and post standards oriented assessments in the form of NAEP writing exams. In a pre/post repeated... Read all pages in this resource, starting from the beginning |
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1 year 12 weeks ago |
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Using Technology to Support Inclusion As a special education teacher in a high school setting, my primary goal is to bring students with disabilities into the mainstream of education... |
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2 years 24 weeks ago |
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Our Hackjam: Hacking the Story Last month I went to the Educon conference at the Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia for the first time and was so excited to see all of the... |
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11 weeks 5 days ago |
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#literacies Chat The #literacies chat is a weekly chat on Twitter bringing together educators, researchers and thinkers fascinated by contemporary... |
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15 weeks 3 days ago |
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Power Users' Guide Instead of using a rubric, Paul Allison, a high school teacher from the New York City Writing Project and one of the founding teachers of the Youth... |
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1 year 2 days ago |
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Machine Reading of Student Writing "Writing to a Machine is Not Writing At All" is an essay written by Anne Herrington and Charlie Moran, to be published in a volume honoring Ed White... |
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1 year 16 weeks ago |
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Assessing Multimedia Projects Crib Sheet This is a short, useable set of criteria for evaluating multimedia compositions developed by T. Rickert and C. Charlton for English 106 at Indiana... |
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2 years 29 weeks ago |
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Assessing Multimedia Compositions: Additional Resources A set of teacher resources for the assessment of multimedia compositions and projects. Three of these resources address K–12... Read all pages in this resource, starting from the beginning |
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2 years 12 weeks ago |
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Teaching the New Writing: Technology, Change, and Assessment in the 21st Century Classroom Herrington, Anne, Kevin Hodgson, and Charles Moran, eds. 2009. Teaching the New Writing: Technology, Change, and Assessment in the 21st ... Read all pages in this resource, starting from the beginning |
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2 years 12 weeks ago |
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Enabling Assessment over Time with Digital Writing Tools Hicks, Troy. The Digital Writing Workshop. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2009. Chapter 6: "Enabling Assessment over Time with Digital Writing Tools... Read all pages in this resource, starting from the beginning |
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2 years 12 weeks ago |
