Entries Tagged as 'Education'
100 Day Project – Day 48 – 8:08 pm First, if by any chance you were counting, I’m sure I’ve miscounted again! Since I tend to miss writing on the weekends; I decided I’ll just count the next day I write, not the days of the week! I haven’t missed more than two days in [...]
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100 Day Project – Day 46 – 7:18 pm Today, at the community college where I work, I had the great fortune to spend the day in a workshop with Barbara Walvoord. It was an excellent workshop about Curriculum Mapping. The overarching task I’m not so fond of — each department/division/program at the school – [...]
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100 Day Project – Day 39 – the next day at 6:34….. “It is important to ask and answer this question: What do students need to know and be able to do “out there” as a result of their work in our classrooms.” Ruth Stiehls The Outcomes Primer Exactly! I ask myself this constantly. At [...]
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100 Day Project – Day 36 – 9:55 (This is yesterday’s posting.) This afternoon on a walk with my five-year-old granddaughter, we stopped to admire a few ants — we were already carrying a Wooly Bear caterpillar in a jar with us (doesn’t everyone know that even caterpillars need afternoon exercise?) — and she informed [...]
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