An Annotation by Bobbie Dunn
This article explained how the adolescent brain is still growing and that it’s part of how their brain learns to test the limits of the environment.  It goes on to detail how best to work with adolescents, with ideas such as continually teaching social and behavioral skills throughout the school year, [...]

An Annotation by Holly Waterman
Children are researchers.  They will constantly question who’s in charge and what types of behaviors they can get away with.  Teachers need to set limits in the classroom to avoid disruptive behaviors to even take place.  This article mentions the six properties of effective consequences as well as appropriate and inappropriate [...]

An Annotation by Holly Waterman
There are six benefits as to why cooperative learning can be an effective teaching strategy:

Students who are able to take responsibility for their own learning through cooperative learning gain positive attitudes towards school,
have higher self esteem, and
build race relations among a mixed variety of diversity.
These together gain greater student achievement.
Cooperative [...]

An Annotation by Laurie Walsh
The chapter is a fabulously detailed and thoughtful discussion of six methods to create a student-centered classroom:

integrative units,
small-group activities,
representing-to-learn,
classroom workshop,
authentic experiences and
reflective assessment.

Each approach is thoroughly discussed, and there are suggested further readings for each.  Unlike many of the other authors, Zemelman does acknowledge that we still need whole-class instruction at [...]

An Annotation by Laurie Walsh
The article begins with a comparison and contrast of two classrooms, each discussing the character of Queen Gertrude in Hamlet.  The two classrooms exhibit different “interpretive norms–patterns of interaction that occur when students and teachers discuss texts”.  The author references Townsend and Pace’s article and their questions for interpretive norms:
Whose interpretations [...]

An Annotation by Laurie Walsh
Internal control psychology’s choice theory is the topic of this book.  The author has been an educator for over 30 years, and he began practicing this theory over 20 years ago.
Glasser developed the theory as a
“biological theory that suggests we are born with specific needs that we are genetically instructed to [...]

An Annotation by Laurie Walsh
The author has compiled and named a myriad of techniques used by K-12 teachers and college professors.  One recurring theme throughout the book is the importance of pacing.
According to this author, the teacher must keep the classroom pace highly involved and fast-paced because of the shrinking attention span of students.  The [...]

Guhlin, M.  (2006, August 15).  Flickr-ing – out.  Retrieved June 9, 2008,  from    http://www.techlearning.com/blog/2006/08/flickring_out.php.
An Annotation by Jeffery Ayer
In a blog entry, Guhlin humorously poses an imaginary memo response to a teacher trying to incorporate Web 2.0 technologies in her classroom by “Ms. Davis’ Supervisor.”  Interestingly enough, its contents are important, and help to [...]

Glasser, W., M.D.  (1998).  The quality school teacher.  New York: HarperPerennial, 18-22; 97-112; 113-118.
An Annotation by Jeffery Ayer
William Glasser, in three separate chapters, discusses his “six conditions of quality”, along with how to go about teaching choice theory, and how to employ qualitative ungraded assignments.  His six conditions include the following:  “There must be a [...]

Glasser, W.  (1997).  “Choice theory” and student success.  Phi Delta     Kappan:  16-21.
An Annotation by Jeffery Ayer
Glasser makes a case for choice theory to combat the common reinforcement of a stimulus/response (SR) psychology in today’s classrooms.  He asserts that “SR is completely wrongheaded and totally destructive to the warm, supportive human relationships students need to [...]