From the category archives:

cooperative_learning

Online Work-Flow For School Newspaper Defined

by Mark December 17, 2009 classroom_culture

The 4th and 5th grades are joining forces to publish a school newspaper. They need an online workflow which is backed-up, feature-rich and future-proof. This outline of our plans is a starting point.

Title One Heaven: When Technology and Teaching Take Off

by Mark December 17, 2009 cooperative_learning

In a small Title One school in Virginia, teachers are taking their learners past what many in the more well-to-do areas are doing. This is a great example of technology, teaching and title one surpassing expectations. Using Mo Willems, reading, writing, art and social media in 1st grade.

21 Things That Will Be Obsolete in 2020? Try 2010.

by Mark December 16, 2009 ESOL

A list of 21 things in Education some believe will be obsolete. At a small title one elementary school outside Washington, many of them already are.

Teacher Productivity Vs. Teacher Effectiveness

by Mark December 4, 2009 ESOL

So going forward I’m going to focus on these two concepts: “teacher productivity” and “teacher effectiveness.” I’m going to list the tools, means and ways the productivity experts have come up with over the years and how they can be applied to the administrative, troublesome and ancillary aspects of our jobs as teachers. I’m going to list and think about all the ways teachers can become more effective at their craft–the art of teaching. And I’m going to try not to mix up the two.

25 Digital Things All Teachers Should Know – Updated

by Mark June 4, 2009 ESOL

There are 25 important tools for increasing teacher productivity, from saving and sharing bookmarks with your colleagues and class, to capturing video. 25 easy things to do that make things easy. Tackling these 25 things are a good year-long goal for the uninitiated and a check-list for the tech-savvy.

Inserting The Editorial Process into Clairvoy

by Mark May 30, 2009 cooperative_learning

Clairvoy (now Traditional Clairvoy) started out as a blog with five teachers giving advise to other teachers who submitted questions. We still get messages from teachers all over the world. We’ve grown to a site with blogs, wikis, forums, articles and file sharing. More than 1000 pages of different content and nearly 800 registered users. We have a new site for teacher research called Education Study Group. However, most of our visitors don’t sign in. People just read.