Monthly Archives: October 2010
Sir Ken Robinson – Changing Paradigms
Below I embedded a short excerpt from Sir Ken Robinsons speech on Changing Paradigms and also the full version below it. Pretty interesting stuff.
Filed under Teaching Discoveries
Frequency words
I have been getting a lot out of Michel Baker’s blog! In the blog below she identifies two really helpful tools by Mark Davies. I was aware of his frequency dictionary, but not the online corpus. What a helpful resource for … Continue reading
Filed under teaching grammar, TPRS Basics
Ira Glass on Storytelling part 2 [youtube part 4]
Here is one more segment from Ira Glass that I found to be helpful on storytelling. Reflective moments in our stories make them more real and apart of life, rather than just some random story that we are telling as … Continue reading
Filed under Storytelling tips
Ira Glass on Storytelling
I found this link on Michel Bakers blog. [the link to her blog is above under more blogs] She has a lot of solid basic ideas for stortelling that really made sense. Check it out.
Filed under Storytelling tips
Eduplace.com Graphic Organizers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUrMqzclMIA
Filed under Assessment, Mixing it Up
Brief 7th grade Exploratory Footage
Here is some brief footage of a 7th grade Exploratory class. It is in the TPR phase where we are creating little situations of the words that we just previously worked with. I find that after we practice the words … Continue reading
Filed under 3 steps of TPRS®
