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 – […]
Entries Tagged as 'teaching'
100 Day Project – Day 44 – Risk taking
October 19th, 2011 · Comments Off on 100 Day Project – Day 44 – Risk taking · 100 Days Project, Children, family, Musings, Work
100 Day Project – Day 44 – 9:30 p.m. This evening I had occasion to have dinner with three other very bright, and devoted women: women who have worked for years with young children and their families. Discussion ranged from jobs and families to the state of politics, and about children. This recent study was […]
Tags: Children·conversations·family·research·risk·teaching·technology
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 […]
Tags: college·conversations·extrinsic reward·intrinsic reward·learning·motivation·school·teaching·Work
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 […]
Tags: Books·Children·college·learning·quote·Ruth Stiehls·teaching·Work
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 […]
Tags: Children·college·conversations·learning·light bulbs·teaching