20 June 2005
Assessing Student Learning
Dr. Lee Hay

Assessment has to be the most difficult part of teaching, especially when it comes to the “multiple learning styles” and the special needs students we learned about earlier.  And even with regular students ( Read more... )

                                                             v.      Testing Accommodations (p.7)

1. Identify one goal for a student with a disability (You choose the Disability and the goal.  Discuss how you would collaborate with a special education teacher to help the student to reach the goal in your classroom. 

QUESTION 2

There are many major differences between Section 504 and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).  First and foremost Section 504 is a civil rights law where IDEA is an educational law.    This means that Section 504 is broader and not exclusive to education.  More students may qualify for this than IDEA ( Read more... )

17 Jun 2005

Dr. Donald Parris/Amy Criscitelli M.Ed

Classroom Management Fundamentals

The best thing to come out of this class for me was the self-analysis as to whether we could have Referent Power.  I did end ( Read more... )

16 Jun 2005
Dr. Donald Parris
Classroom Management Fundamentals

This is the class I have been waiting for. I know from pre-reading Every Minute Counts for my Math Methods ( Read more... )

This story was included in our handouts about diversity. It had also been read by another teacher of good instructinal techniques. I enjoyed it both times:

The first ( Read more... )

15 June 2005

Multicultural Education

Dr. William A. Howe

This session did not contain a lot of surprises but managed to put form to a lot of the thoughts and feelings I have had over the years, and it is one of the myriad of reasons I am writing this journal entry as part of a class of people getting ready to go teach.  I am ( Read more... )

15 June 2005

Writing Across the Discipline

J. Emmett Goggin

As someone who loves both math and English, this was a wonderful session, full of ideas on how to incorporate writing into my math classes.  And it also seems like a great way to get an initial evaluation of where students stand on writing, grammar, spelling, right off the bat.  ( Read more... )

My session ended with this story, which I thought worth passing on ( Read more... )

13 June 2005
Special Education and the General Education Teacher, Part II
Dr. Gregory W. Little

I’ve mentioned the phenomena that the more I’ve learned the more I need to learn.  These last two days was that to the extreme.  The notes for the last two days fill as much notebook space as the entire last week.  I can understand why ( Read more... )