A Personal Metaphor: Shared for Slice of Life Tuesday
Slice of Life Tuesday crept up on me this week. Notably, we’ve had the college graduation of our oldest son and the death of one of our dear cats, Clark.…
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Today’s Garden Club Lesson: Inspiring Youth with Monarch Conservation Activities
Today, my garden club for third, forth, and fifth graders will meet after school. We have two meetings in the month of May, instead of our usual single monthly meeting.…
Outliers & The Gifted
If you’ve ever taken a statistics course, you’ve been warned about these. Outliers can throw your data off. If you’ve ever looked at a bell curve, you’ve seen a graphical…
Grades: Do they measure learning?
via Daily Prompt: Measure Having students who work hard and do well in school, I always bought into the premise that grades measure learning. With years of experience in education,…
Professional Learning Communities
Are you a teacher? If so, are you involved in professional learning communities (PLCs)? What are some of the characteristics of PLC’s you attend? What is the feel? Do you…
What are you reading now?
On a trip to our public library a few years ago, one of the librarians commented to me when I checked out that she likes to look at the books…
Creating Opportunities
I just got through writing an online response to a discussion question for a graduate course I am taking on the Models of Teaching and Learning. It was on…
Resources for the Gifted & Talented
It is not a popular topic in education today, arguably it probably was not ever given attention by the demands of the masses. But, gifted and talented education (GATE) or…
