December 2009
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ZOMG! Learning styles theory is bunk?? →
Have you all ever heard about learning styles? Normally associated with Howard Gardner’s multiple intelligences, it basically says that people learn in different ways (verbal, musical, auditory, interpersonal, intrapersonal, etc.) and part of a teacher’s job is to find engaging ways to teach that hit on a bunch of these so that everyone learns…
This is like some BREAD AND BUTTER...
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brief summaries: my school and the city.
First, the school update: You remember the hope (this is where I would link to another post if I knew how?!) about the survey and the possibility of feedback, etc. Here’s what happened after that:
1. small changes: principal feedback on meeting notes, a suggestion box in the main office, announcements emailed to the staff
2. heard from another meeting that I put my spies (kidding) in:...
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high/low
This post was originally going to be called “bright spots” or something like that because I wanted to write - for once- about the few things that make me happy and make me excited to teach: the students. Then, I got some news this morning and needed to change the post to “high/low.” In advisory, we do something called check-ins, where a question is asked and everyone...
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Report shows wide disparity in college achievement →
Article from the post about success rates in college. Some clips:
*About 45 percent of low-income and underrepresented minority students entering as freshmen in 1999 had received bachelor’s degrees six years later at the colleges studied, compared with 57 percent of other students.
*Only 7 percent of minority students who entered community colleges received bachelor’s degrees within...
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inconclusive attempts at improvement
I have a potential reason to be hopeful !! At the end of a really useless professional development on Friday about discipline from the deans (have I mentioned the high school dean before? I’m not sure what she does cause she’s not really in the halls checking for anything except uniforms - more on this in a minute), we were shepherded into the computer lab to take an online survey...
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on coming back.
I had a really wonderful Thanksgiving. After spending a full day in the kitchen, the meal was a total success (23 lb. turkey, Parmesan mashed potatoes, roasted root vegetables, garlic cauliflower, apple sausage stuffing, sauteed kale, orange and pear cranberry sauce, glazed carrots…. and a chocolate pecan pie - I did not make this - with 18 year old aged scotch brought by one of the...