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July 2009
Imagine Every Child Reading
July 31, 2009
Today's blog entry comes from Mary Damer. Mary Damer, an adjunct professor at the Ohio State University is a former teacher, principal, and behavior consultant. She is the co-author of Managing Unmanageable Students: Practical Solutions for Administrators. For four years she was the field... Read More ⇒
Overconfident Students - low reading scores
July 31, 2009
The University of Buffalo’s News Center posted an article yesterday entitled “Overconfidence Among Teenage Students Can Stunt Crucial Reading Skills.” The study was conducted Ming Ming Chiu. “Too much confidence among teenage students can be harmful. In a study that reinforces the danger of... Read More ⇒
21st Century Decision Making
July 29, 2009
A short video blog entry today on the power of a team and maximizing the talents of individual members: http://www.eschoolnews.com/conference-info/necc/esn-tv-at-necc/index.cfm?i=54377... Read More ⇒
What is classroom impact of teacher study groups?
July 27, 2009
The following information is taken from An Investigation of the Impact of the Teacher Study Group as a Means to Enhance the Quality of Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary Instruction for First Graders in Reading First Schools: Technical Report by Russell Gersten et al., Instructional Research... Read More ⇒
Rethinking Reading Comprehension
July 21, 2009
The July-August-September 2009 issue of Reading Research Quarterly contains a two year study by Margaret McKeown, Isabel Beck and Ronette Blake, “Rethinking Reading Comprehension Instruction: A Comparison of Instruction for Strategies and Content Approaches.” It compares three different ways of... Read More ⇒
How Learning Works
July 20, 2009
Posted today on the USA Today website is an artilcle entitled "Trying to Learn How Learning Works." It speaks about new research being conducted on learning. "Three principles, "across a range of areas and ages" come across in the new learning research:•Learning is computational. Even infants and... Read More ⇒
