Category: Reading

Turner's Graph of the Week

11/9/2015

Related to our PDs on Close Reading, Turner's Graph of the Week is a great website for teaching graph-reading, which is a kind of literacy just like reading words.

Check it out and use it as needed for openers, special lessons, or topical tie-ins. Its a great way to teach reading in any course. Graphs relate to math, science, social studies, languages, and encore subjects.

http://www.turnersgraphoftheweek.com/

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For more specific lesson ideas and plans, check out the Lesson Ideas page.

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News and Links of the Week

9/16/2014

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Thank you, Piedmont staff, because YOU are This to me! Click the image to see why.

Latest Piedmont PD News includes info on National Board Certification, Discovery Place's professional development offerings for teachers, new quick PD's on handy efficient tech tricks to save you time and storage space: like the quickest way to upload to Google Docs, how to convert and embed a powerpoint, How to make a QR CODE ,chromebook and computer troubleshooting info, etc

Other Ed News from Around the Web:

Brew Your Own Personalized PD

https://www.edsurge.com/guide/how-teachers-are-learning-professional-development-remix

LITERACY and ART_ Why older kids and adults need picture books and graphic novels http://trevorcairney.blogspot.com/2014/09/why-older-kids-adults-need-picture.html
HOMEWORK-Why Marzano's Homework Research is Flawed: http://linkis.com/buff.ly/3BoHA
GOOGLE CLASSSROOM-Use Google Classroom to Differentiate Assignments http://www.alicekeeler.com/teachertech/2014/09/14/using-google-classroom-to-differentiate-assignments/
MAKERSPACES - 30 Second Take: Digital Duel: Makerspaces - Piedmont has makerspace materials for you. Here are two teachers each speaking for 30 secs about how makerspaces are useful to you in class as a teacher and to your students.
Teachers' FAVORITE APPS

Twitter Chat - Storified Twitter Chat (conglomeration of Tweets) where teachers share their favorite apps and how they use them http://sfy.co/qg2W
Article that includes apps remind, class dojo, and others http://www.npr.org/blogs/ed/2014/09/16/347377022/a-is-for-apps-teachers-share-top-digital-tools-of-the-trade

PERSONALIZED LEARNING IN CMS "What is Personalized Learning in CMS?" Video #cmsk12chat http://youtu.be/HhzGgPbcmeY
BLOGGING: Student Blogger Challenge week one http://studentchallenge.edublogs.org/2014/09/14/week-1-gday-from-downunder/
DESIGN CYCLE/ BACKWARD DESIGN HINT: http://lifehacker.com/assume-everything-you-know-is-wrong-to-come-up-with-bet-1633959227
MOTIVATING STUDENTS -

Start with Strengths! http://chriswejr.com/2014/09/10/start-with-strengths-change-the-lens-change-the-story/
How The Power Of Interest Drives Learning http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2013/11/how-the-power-of-interest-drives-learning/ "Research shows, for example, that an inscrutable poem is judged as more interesting when readers are given a hint that allows them to make sense of what it’s about. Abstract art, too, is considered to be more interesting when the paintings are given titles that help viewers understand what the artists may have had in mind as they painted. Viewers become even more interested in such paintings when they are given biographical information about the artist and background about the historical context in which it was created."
Stop Teaching Kids to Play the Game of School
A new Game based site called Kahoot- it says access is free and the folks who use it seem to like it. I can look into it more for you if you let me know you are interested.

Big Philosophical idea of the week:

I'd love to know what you think about Dr. Zhao's position and what we teachers should do. http://zhaolearning.com/2014/09/13/fatal-attraction-americas-suicidal-quest-for-educational-excellence/

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Acting Out Text Can Double Kids' Reading Comprehension

5/8/2014

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...and other long reads well worth your while

Here are two reads for your weekend long-reading enjoyment:

I highly recommend both!

First, Here's the article referred to in the title of this post, via Annie Murphy Paul. I like a lot of her Brilliant Report so it is all worth reading http://eepurl.com/S2XQj

And also, CMS PD Specialist Kim Marshall compiles a digest of news of interest to educators . This particular Marshall Memo is so amazing I had to share it with you. Click on the image (cafe picture) if you find the quotes below compelling enough to read her entire newsletter.

“The evidence against VAM is at this point overwhelming. The refusal of school reformers to acknowledge it is outrageous.”

    Valerie Strauss in “Statisticians Slam Popular Teacher Evaluation Method”

“How well is differentiated instruction carried out and by how many teachers? How well does it actually work and for which kids under what circumstances? I’d really like to know, and so, I am sure, would many others.”

    Chester Finn, Jr. (see item #4)

“Privateness has not been and undoubtedly never will be lauded, precarious, and decent. Humankind will always subjugate privateness.”

    This sentence got a near-perfect score from a robot grading program (see item #5)

“Self-control is like a muscle – we need to restore its strength after use. Rest, relaxation, meditation, prayer, a snack – all those things can help restore us.”

    Maryam Kouchaki (see item #2)

“What do you notice?”

    Kristen Marchiando’s question of her third graders as they read together (see item #7)

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Turner's Graph of the Week

News and Links of the Week

Acting Out Text Can Double Kids' Reading Comprehension

...and other long reads well worth your while

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