Archive for May, 2009

“Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student.”

I’m not sure yet why I’m getting the whole post here and only the post title in elementary school.  I’ll figure it out though.

A list of lessons, topics, resources . . .you know

Coming soon.

Perhaps a post from a 10th grade biology teacher with links and pics and stuff.

Ok.  So this post could be an article with down-loadable copies of activities used to build character in 7th grade.

So this would be a grade and dicipline post about reading centers in 2nd grade. Down loadable digital content could certainly be included.

Receiving a Master’s degree from the University of St. Mary’s has been an immensely satisfying experience for me. I’ve learned and changed and grown in innumerable and meaningful ways. But when it comes to professional development, the St. Mary’s program is second to none. I have applied my new learning and confidence directly to my classes and my students have benefited. St. Mary’s breaks their program into four IDEA categories: Instruction, Discipline, Environment, and Assessment. This article outlines the effect this program has had on my instruction.

Former students of mine recently informed me that Google Scholar is being widely used as a research tool at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and since finding this out, I’ve made ample use of it myself.

Team-based learning, an educational method primarily conceived for business schools, was developed in the early 1980s by Larry K. Michaelsen, now a professor of management at the University of Central Missouri in the United States. An alternative to traditional lecturing, this method uses a mix of individual and group processes to solve problems.

In recent years, some medical schools have recognized the advantage of active learning that encourages critical thinking and have started to experiment with Professor Michaelsen’s techniques.

Now, the Duke-N.U.S. Graduate Medical School, in Singapore, has gone a step further, applying this method to its entire basic science education.