Archive for February, 2008

A resource for developing IEP goals

Friday, February 22nd, 2008 Posted in Education, Links and Resources | No Comments »

Sometimes, developing goals is difficult. You may know the student extremely well, but you have difficulty finding the right wording. A while back, one of my colleagues sent me a ... Read more..

Bang: a game for decoding and sight word recognition

Thursday, February 21st, 2008 Posted in Education | No Comments »

I'm always amazed when I tutor or watch a colleague tutor students with learning disabilities how long their attention span is for reading words off of flash cards (or math ... Read more..

Autism breakthrough: girl’s writings explain her behavior and feelings

Thursday, February 21st, 2008 Posted in Education | No Comments »

An incredibly interesting story for anyone into learning more about autism: Carly Fleischmann has severe autism and is unable to speak a word. But thanks to years of expensive and intensive ... Read more..

Tracking progression: addition and multiplication facts

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008 Posted in Education | No Comments »

The two tables I've included with this post are derived from a trick I stole from the Hunter College Learning Lab. The purpose of the tables – as banal ... Read more..

How-To: A teacher’s guide to PowerPoint

Sunday, February 3rd, 2008 Posted in Instructional Technology | No Comments »

Keep It Simple Don't overcrowd your PowerPoint. Even if you have a Smartboard and you're doing a lesson on proofreading: do not overcrowd it. Less is more. When we teach thematic units ... Read more..

The Ingenuity Age

Saturday, February 2nd, 2008 Posted in Education | 1 Comment »

In a recent posting, I mentioned the "Ingenuity Age." Vicki Davis asked me where this term came from. In truth, it came from an accident. I had planned to write ... Read more..

Pushing and pulling

Saturday, February 2nd, 2008 Posted in Education | No Comments »

As educators, we push information to our students. Over the years, we have become fairly good at our craft. But so has our competition. We compete with every other medium ... Read more..