Top Ten Professional Hurrahs of 2012-2013 School Year 1. 2. Fund for Teachers grant fully funded for ten thousand dollars! 3. Successfully integrated Visual Thinking Strategies learned at Smithsonian American Art Clarice Smith National Teacher Institute all year, culminating in local art museum’s acceptance of student poetry writing submission 4. Awarded mini-grants through FirstBook to [...]
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Art Is
In my last post, I briefly shared what Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) might entail in a classroom. I learned about VTS methodology and put it into practice, lots of practice, during the week long Smithsonian American Art National Teacher Institute in Washington, DC. After a brief overview of the theory and watching the Smithsonian’s presenters facilitate the thirty-ish teachers [...]
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Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS): The Clarice Smith National Teacher Institute
On July 9, 2012, I traipsed up the never-ending steps and literally skipped into the old Patent Office (now known as Smithsonian American Art Museum) in Washington, DC. Beginning the first of five days at The Clarice Smith National Teacher Institute, I tried to shrug off the extreme humidity from outside and walk in with a [...]
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Weekly Diigo Posts and The Clarice Smith National Teacher Institute
I just returned from one of the best professional development trainings I have ever been blessed to attend: The Clarice Smith National Teacher Institute at Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC. I will be posting several reflections about my rich experience in the coming days, but for the time being, here are my weekly [...]
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Weekly Diigo Posts
10 Jul 12 Visual Thinking Strategies teaching method and school curriculum centering on open-ended yet highly-structured discussions of visual art, significantly increasing students’ critical thinking, language and literacy skills along the way. Educational Clipart free educational clip art 03 Jul 12 The Odyssey Interactive game reinforcing the classic The Odyssey Surviving Dickens’ London Interactive game [...]
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Weekly Diigo Posts
02 Jul 12 Technology.com Complete guide to using Skype in the classroom 30 Jun 12 Education Week Teaching Secrets: Get to Know Students Through Seating Challenges 28 Jun 12 Pow Toon a new service for creating explanatory videos through what appears to be a simple drag and drop process. PowToon provides drawings of people and [...]
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Technology: Friend or Foe?
While perusing Smart Blog on Education, I ran across an article by Josh Stumpenhorst, Stump the Teacher blogger, entitled “What is a 21st century teacher?” This article is worthy of being read and reread, however one portion of his blog really resonated with me: “Be a master of technology. I am not saying that good 21st-century [...]
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Weekly Diigo Posts
23 Jun 12 10 Gatsby Facts F Scott Fitzgerald facts/pics reading Teaching the igeneration Slideshare presentation about digital integration technology Making History, One Word At a Time Writers are archaelogists writing 21 Jun 12 Brighton Cottage Blogspot Readers NB timeline reading**workshop Word For Teens Tired of [...]
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How To Coax Your Teen Reader
There used to be a time when my oldest son would gobble up books. Huddled in his room, he could easily wile hours upon hours away with a good book (or two or three). Sadly, gone are those treasured days. He said goodbye to books (unless you count assigned school reading-and only after much sighing [...]
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Because Digital Writing Matters
Because Digital Writing Matters by National Writing Project with Danielle Nicole DeVoss, Elyse Eidman-Aadahl, and Troy Hicks As the school year begins knocking at my door and I begin to wind down summer, I have begun to think about what I plan on valuing in my classroom this school year. I have thought rather introspectively the past [...]
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