I first became aware of Dr. Don Leu’s work at the VSRA conference about 4 years ago. Someone dragged me to the General Session and said they thought that I would enjoy the speaker. I was skeptical, but pleasantly surprised. So when I saw that he was featured for this conference, I was determined to go [...]
The first conference session that I went to was The Teacher Research Grant Award session. If you know me, you know I love research – so this should be no surprise…the session was by a reading specialist in Montgomery County. She had won the grant with her proposal on using podcasting to increase student reading [...]
The Virgina State Reading Association conference began today. I’ve been burning the midnight oil getting ready given everything else that seemed to get dropped on my plate in the last month…As the VSRA Technology & Reading chairperson, I have been charged with getting additional technology based sessions added to the conference lineup. My co-chair, Melissa [...]
We went to the Promethean ActivVA conference today. WOW what an experience. There were lots of ideas and flipcharts to share with everyone. I had four teachers (Davis, Bass, Hamill, and Pitts) from Victory as well athe principal, Mrs. Horne, attend. From Brighton I had 6 teachers (Taxson, Perty, Sheppard, Gibson, V. Williams and F. [...]
This is a VETC09 session. Live Blogging…
Sharon McGlone, TRT at Booker T in Norfolk, is presenting.
Things that help:
TRT gives overview to students
TRT creates samples when planning with the teacher
TRT co-teaches
students practiced in diads
Rubrics given to students before they were assessed
Teacher training is key
refer to podcasts as “audio files” to increase teacher comfort
Students in groups worked best
be careful about [...]
This session with Marzano is entitled: Developing Standards-Based Schools One Teacher at a Time
There is a growing movement to change the way we allow students to show what they have learned. So many things are beginning to come together sometimes the terminologies get confused, but we’ll get that sored out. New book coming out about [...]
I’m at the VSTE conference in Roanoke and the first session I have is a hands-on session. Look what I’ve learned…
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