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 45 – Power of Mentoring
October 20th, 2011 · Comments Off on 100 Day Project – Day 45 – Power of Mentoring · 100 Days Project, Children, Important People, Musings, Teaching & Learning, Volunteer, Work
100 Day Project – Day 45 – 9;05 p.m. Become a Big. Do you want to make a difference in the world? Yes, you could donate some money, bring some cans to the food bank, donate your old clothes, your old car, and put coins in the red bucket during the holidays. These are good […]
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100 Day Project – Day 42 – Motivation
October 17th, 2011 · Comments Off on 100 Day Project – Day 42 – Motivation · 100 Days Project, College students, Teaching & Learning, Work
100 Day Project – Day 42 – 8:16 p.m. (If you’re paying attention I skipped Days 40 and 41 over the weekend.) An interesting internet road happened today: First my usual email newsletter blast from Child Care Exchange about Creativity. From there I decided to follow their link to The 99% website that seems to […]
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100 Day Project – Day 39 – Quality
October 15th, 2011 · Comments Off on 100 Day Project – Day 39 – Quality · 100 Days Project, Children, College students, Education, Quote of the Week, Teaching & Learning, Work
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 38 – Light bulbs
October 13th, 2011 · Comments Off on 100 Day Project – Day 38 – Light bulbs · 100 Days Project, Children, College students, Musings, Teaching & Learning
100 Day Project – Day 38 – 8:56 pm There were two lightbulb moments today: one for a student, and one for me. An Introduction to Early Childhood Student had a really obvious lightbulb moment. I ask students to have Reading Talks. They have read an assignment, responded to it in writing and come prepared […]
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