A Teacher’s Thoughts

Whenever I pull out my science frameworks, I am always amazed at the amount of content and the apparent unrelatedness of it all. I have worked with standards in three states and it seems to be the same each time. Training and best practice say to dig deeper but the standards, so broad in coverage, [...]

After many discussions and readings about content versus skills in eduction I remembered an experience I had in early in graduate school. I was in the biology library one evening trying to figure out what to do a thesis on. I had been at it for several weeks at that point, though I wasn’t frustrated. [...]

It has taken a while but I am starting to cross things off my to-do list. Going back and reading things I didn’t have time for earlier is an ever present item on this list. I don’t remember how I found my way to this article or how it found its way to me, but [...]

Some time back, Ray Gilmore, a gradate of our school had written a letter to the local paper. He was serving in the Army in Afghanistan in a remote region near the Iranian border. His mission was with the local people. He spent his days planning and guiding the building/rebuilding of various infrastructure such as [...]

When my students first began to use Bubbl.us they used it mainly for vocabulary or to organize their own thoughts around an idea. I took this approach to focus on the tool and get the novelty out of the way so we could return to thinking. After a few days, a student commented that it [...]